Kingsoft Office: Change language (spell check)
Kingsoft Office 2012 is a nice freeware alternative for Microsoft Office with one great advantage: tabs. But there’s also a major drawback, Kingsoft Office doesn’t come with non-English dictionaries for its spell check. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible to change that – you can import a dictionary in your own language. I already wrote a post about how this task can done for German, this article is about all other languages.
Preparation:
At first you need a dictionary in your language, which has to be in .dic-format. Chances are, you already have one or more on your hard drive. Firefox, Open Office and many other applications use dictionaries in this format. Scan your hard drive with windows search or with an instant search tool like Everything for .dic-files. Usable dictionaries come named like it_it.dic (for Italian) or vi_VN.dic (Vietnamese). If you found one, copy it to a folder of your choice.
If you weren’t lucky finding a proper .dic-file, you can try finding a dictionary in your language on this site. The downloads under “Spell-check dictionaries” are .cab-archives, which can be extracted with WinRar, 7-Zip or any other unpacker. An alternative download source for dictionaries can be found here. The files linked are mostly archives, from which you only need to extract the .dic-file. .oxt-files need to be renamed to .zip to extract them.
If this approach also fails, just try to google for a .dic-dictionary in your language.
Import the dictionary in Kingsoft Office:
If you managed to find a proper dictionary file, open it in Kingsoft Office as shown in the video and set it as default:
After importing, you need to open a document in your language to find out, if the dictionary works like expected. If not, you can disable or delete it from the same dialog window where you imported. After that you can try other .dic-files.
Update: After a commentator pointed out, that the german dictionary from here and from Open Office did not work as good as expected, I added the superior dictionaries from the freeware text editor PSPad as link. If you’re a programmer, take a look at PSPad too.

