[Bug]: spell checker isn't downloading the dictionary in versions 11.0.0 +

[rileycirrus]

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Electron Version

11.4.7

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 Home version 20H2 build 19042.985

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

10.4.7

Expected Behavior

Electron downloads the dictionary to the dictionaries folder in appdata/Roaming/Electron/Dictionaries

Actual Behavior

Electron does not download the dictionary, and nothing can be found in the dictionaries folder.

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

This works fine on versions before 11.
I have done a fair bit of testing with versions on this and I think one version is downloading the dictionary to the root directory as well ("appdata/Roaming/Electron", not sure which, I will update if i find it)

[tyson-sh]

Also experiencing this. Hoping for a fix as this is seriously holding my app back.

[rileycirrus]

Is this potentially caused by Chrome starting to use the windows dictionary?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21273934/microsoft-google-chrome-edge-chromium-spellcheck-improvements

[hwallis93]

I'm also very interested in getting this fixed

[AndreThompson-Atlow]

Having some issue with this as well, had to pull spell check out of my app for now. Hopefully this gets resolved as soon as possible, i'd rather use electron 12+ than 11.

Edit: Also in response to this maybe being about chrome using the windows dictionary, I did try to use the electron webContents 'enableBlinkFeatures' and 'disableBlinkFeatures' to enable/disable the chromium use_renderer_spellcheck and use_browser_spellcheck flags, and it didn't seem to resolve the issue. That said, there might be some nuance to doing this that i'm not aware of and it's also possible that these flags are controlled a different way.

[CaseyLeeMurphy]

Any updates on this? The spellcheck feature on windows is not working at all for us in our application as a result of these dictionaries not downloading. We're on electron version 15.3.3 and still experiencing this issue

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