Spell Checkin not working in german

Questions
1

I’m having trouble with spell checking in the browser application when setting the language to German using:

#set text(lang: "de")

No spelling errors are being detected at all.

However, when I set the language to English:

#set text(lang: "en")

the spell checker works as expected. I’ve tested this on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, but the issue persists across all browsers.

Its also not workign with an minimal example as:

#set text(lang: "de", region: "de")
Finde den Fehlr.
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It’s a known issue (not a bug) as the web app uses a library called hunspell which relies on a rather complicated dictionary file format for spell checking. The issue stems from the fact that the only available German dictionary has a license incompatible with the web app and contacting its author to purchase the dictionary has not yet led to any results unfortunately.

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