What is "en"?

dalinar

What is "en" for Accepted Languages in settings.

I have mine on en-US first and en second and nothing third.

Does "en" if I move it to first mean that it won't red underline English spellings of words like color or colour ?

currently colour gets underlined.

I can't really choose between American spellings and Canadian spellings because honestly american spelling is so prevalent that sometimes american spelling is also acceptable for my work, such as "color" for programming.

or does that setting not control the spell check? it was all I could find related to language in settings.

CatherineL

Not 100% sure (screenshots would be nice) but "en" stands for English.
en
British English (default?)

en-US
US English

en-Canada
Canadian English

Pesala

@dalinar Spell-check options are not in settings. Right-click in a text field to change the spell-check language to whichever you prefer.

Hadden89

@dalinar It controls the webpages language based features (eg: date, time and currency), not the spell checking:

it-IT: Try Italian Main Language at first OR
it: Anything based on Italian Language OR
en-US: Try American English (USA) OR
en: any other English based language (uk, gb, au, ecc)

For spell check you should look here chrome://settings/?search=spell and/or enabling the spell checker in the menu, if not present:

currently colour gets underlined.

If you highlight "colour" you can add it to your dictionary.

sgunhouse

There is an en-UK listed, so I couldn't say what generic en is. (There's also Australia, NZ and rather strangely SA.)

Hadden89

@sgunhouse EN is pretty much any language based on english. I think it means site decide which one