from xara help file

Language selection

The menu shown when you click on the Spell Checker icon on the infobar lists all the languages for which you have dictionaries installed. By default the language corresponding to the current locale setting is selected
i have win 7 french with everything in french, yet xara only offers me english (uk) and english (us) as spellchecker language options

anybody know how i can add french? is there a registry key i can edit?

thx in adnvace