Spell checking, Hyphenation and Thesaurus

Understand various ways to change spelling checker options and hyphenation in FrameMaker.

Adobe FrameMaker supports editing content in virtually any language of the world and offers spell checking, hyphenation and thesaurus functionalities for a large number of languages. The following table lists, for which of the officially supported languages FrameMaker offers, spell checking, hyphenation, and thesaurus functionalities.

Language Spell Checking Hyphenation Thesaurus
Arabic yes no no
Bulgarian yes yes no
Catalan yes yes no
Chinese (Simplified) no no no
Chinese (Traditional) no no no
Croatian yes yes no
Czech yes yes no
Danish yes yes yes
Dutch yes yes no
Dutch (New) yes yes yes
English (Canada) yes yes yes
English (UK) yes yes yes
English (US) yes yes yes
Estonian yes yes no
Farsi no no no
Finnish yes yes no
French yes yes yes
French (Canadian) yes yes yes
German (Austria) yes yes no
German (Germany 1901 Old rules) yes yes no
German (Germany, 1996) yes yes no
German (Germany, 2006) yes yes yes
German (Germany, 1901) yes yes yes
German (Swiss 1996) yes yes no
German (Swiss 2006) yes yes yes
Greek yes yes no
Hebrew yes yes no
Hungarian yes yes no
Italian yes yes yes
Japanese no no no
Korean no no no
Latvian yes yes no
Lithuanian yes yes no
Norwegian yes yes yes
Nynorsk yes yes no
Polish yes yes no
Portuguese (Portugal) yes yes no
Portuguese (Brazilian) yes yes no
Romanian yes yes no
Russian yes yes no
Slovak yes yes no
Slovenian yes yes no
Spanish yes yes yes
Swedish yes yes yes
Thai no no no
Turkish yes yes no