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Diffstat (limited to 'src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp')
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diff --git a/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp b/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp index 1ca97adea..6a4846ddf 100644 --- a/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp +++ b/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp @@ -632,13 +632,33 @@ QQuickWebEngineProfile *QQuickWebEngineProfile::defaultProfile() For example, the \a language \c en-US will load the \c en-US.bdic dictionary file. - The web engine checks for the \c qtwebengine_dictionaries subdirectory - first in the local directory and if it is not found in the Qt - installation directory: + Qt WebEngine checks for the \c qtwebengine_dictionaries subdirectory + first in the local directory and if it is not found, in the Qt + installation directory. + + On macOS, depending on how Qt WebEngine is configured at build time, there are two possibilities + how spellchecking data is found: + + \list + \li Hunspell dictionaries (default) - .bdic dictionaries are used, just like on other + platforms + \li Native dictionaries - the macOS spellchecking APIs are used (which means the results + will depend on the installed OS dictionaries) + \endlist + + Thus, in the macOS Hunspell case, Qt WebEngine will look in the \e qtwebengine_dictionaries + subdirectory located inside the application bundle \c Resources directory, and also in the + \c Resources directory located inside the Qt framework bundle. + + To summarize, in case of Hunspell usage, the following paths are considered: \list \li QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath()/qtwebengine_dictionaries + or QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath()/../Contents/Resources/qtwebengine_dictionaries + (on macOS) \li [QLibraryInfo::DataPath]/qtwebengine_dictionaries + or path/to/QtWebEngineCore.framework/Resources/qtwebengine_dictionaries (Qt framework + bundle on macOS) \endlist For more information about how to compile \c .bdic dictionaries, see the |