Set the language for an entire Word document

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Hello,

I know I can set the language of text using the LocaleId property of Font, but how can I set the language of an entire Word document like you can in Microsoft Word?

Thanks,

Paul

2

@brinkp,

You can get or set default editing language by using the LanguagePreferences.DefaultEditingLanguage Property. Sample code is as follows:

Add Japanese language to the editing languages:

Aspose.Words.LoadOptions loadOptions = new Aspose.Words.LoadOptions();
loadOptions.LanguagePreferences.AddEditingLanguage(EditingLanguage.Japanese);

Document doc = new Document("D:\\Temp\\input.docx", loadOptions);

int localeIdFarEast = doc.Styles.DefaultFont.LocaleIdFarEast;
if (localeIdFarEast == (int)EditingLanguage.Japanese)
    Console.WriteLine("The document either has no any FarEast language set in defaults or it was set to Japanese originally.");
else
    Console.WriteLine("The document default FarEast language was set to another than Japanese language originally, so it is not overridden.");

You may also check other properties/methods of LanguagePreferences Class.

3

Hi awais.hafeez,

Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

Your example works fine when loading an existing document from file. Is it also possible to do this with a new document? For example something like:

Document document = new Document();

document.LanguagePreferences.AddEditingLanguage(EditingLanguage. Japanese);

Thanks a lot in advance,
Paul

4

@brinkp,

It should also work. In case you still face any problem, please share complete simplified code here for testing.

5

I’m afraid I did not make myself clear: the examples I gave are what I would like to have, they are currently not possible…

  • There is no constructor for Document (without a stream or filename parameter) with a LoadOptions parameter.

  • There is also no LanguagePreferences or likewise property for Document.

So I am looking for another way of achieving this.

6

@brinkp,

Please check the following code if that is acceptable for you?

Document doc = new Document();
doc.Styles.DefaultFont.LocaleId = (int)EditingLanguage.Japanese;
doc.Save("D:\\Temp\\18.8.docx");

Also, please check the following code:

Document doc = new Document();
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
doc.Save(stream, SaveFormat.Docx);

Aspose.Words.LoadOptions loadOptions = new Aspose.Words.LoadOptions();
loadOptions.LanguagePreferences.AddEditingLanguage(EditingLanguage.Japanese);

Document docx = new Document(stream, loadOptions);
docx.Save("D:\\temp\\18.8.docx");
7

Thanks for your help, awais.hafeez: this did the trick!
Paul