Missing Languages in Dictionary / Dictionary Filters

[kuirin]

Hi, I was looking into creating dictionary filter workflows as described in https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/inputs/dictionary-filter/ but for Chinese and Japanese. For some reason I do not see either language as options in the language dropdown. I have multiple of those dictionaries downloaded in the Dictionary.app and they show up when I use the default `define` keyword. I looked in the preferences but I don't see any other option to add languages to the Dictionary app, is there something I am missing?

 

Alfred version: 5.1.4 [2195]

MacOS: Sonoma 14.1.1

Dictionary version: 2.3.0 (294)

 

Screenshot of Alfred language options:

 

 

Screenshot of my Dictionary app settings:

 

Edited November 18, 2023 by kuirin

[Vero]

@kuirin Welcome to the forum

 

The spell and define built-in features are in fact spellcheckers, and the available languages for this are provided by a macOS API. This is unlikely to include custom installed dictionaries.

 

We have seen other workflows where people are using custom dictionaries, so it would be worth taking a look around to see how they've worked with them.

[kuirin]

Alright, thanks! It wasn't clear to me that those features were mostly used for spellcheck. I'll take a look around.