Is there any way to disable the syntax highlighting engine’s ability to auto select the language? I am trying to get a block of Swift code highlighted on my install of Discourse: NSString *str = @"hello,"; str = [str stringByAppendingString:@" world"]; I’m flanking the code fence with ~~~swift...~~~ but that’s not working. but the highlighting engine insists on highlighting it as either makefile or nginx. My website only really uses a handful of languages (Xojo, Python, C# and Swift). Is there a way to remove / unload the unnecessary languages loaded by Discourse?

[image] topogram: Is there a way to remove / unload the unnecessary languages loaded by Discourse? Yes, you can add/remove languages from the highlighted languages site setting. Swift is not enabled by default and likely not enabled on your site, which is probably why ```swift is not working for you. (Swift is also not enabled on meta.) It does work for me locally when I add Swift to the site setting: [image]

I think there is a system setting for the default language. You should be able to use ``` swift To force language

Using swift or swift doesn’t seem to work for me. Is Swift one of the included languages? It seems to be in the stable channel for Highlight.js.

Did you try using ```swift as I recommended? It does this: 1. var shoppingList = ["catfish", "water", "tulips"] 2. shoppingList[1] = "bottle of water" * var occupations = [ 3. "Malcolm": "Captain", 4. "Kaylee": "Mechanic", 5. ] 6. occupations["Jayne"] = "Public Relations" EDIT: Hmm. That doesn’t look right. It looked like it worked on try.discourse.org. It seems to do the Right Thing on a test site that I have.

HighlightJS is auto-selecting wrong language

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topogram (Garry Pettet) February 17, 2020, 4:33pm 6

Found the issue. I had to add Swift as a supported language in the site settings. I also removed a bunch of languages that my community doesn’t use. It’s fixed the issue.

Thanks for your help.

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HighlightJS is auto-selecting wrong language

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