Reply To: Character Style Automation for Foreign words

I’m not sure even the spellcheck would reliably detect foreign words.
Take English as the “non-foreign” language for these examples of a false positive and false negative:
1. English names of people/places won’t necessarily be in the spellcheck dictionary, but are not “foreign” words.
2. Some words were originally foreign, were used in English, but are now rare in English, and still common in the original language: these would not be picked up by the spellchecker but are probably “foreign” in this context. For example, the word “bruit” is the common French word for “noise”, but is also a rarely-used English word for “spreading a rumour”.
3. Some words are spelled the same in two languages with completely different meanings. How does the spellchecker know if it’s the “foreign” language or not?

Of course GREP would work if the two languages were using different scripts (English/Russian/Arabic/Hindi/Chinese etc etc.)
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Edit: the ????? was namaste in Hindi, which the forum rejects!