RFC: spellchecking hyphenated words

I have come up with this algorithm for handling hyphenated words (bug 4973):

1. Treat ordinary hyphen surrounded by alphanumerics as word character
so that the entire compound gets passed from the layout code to the
spellechecking interface (SpellChecker::checkWord()).

2. Before calling the spellchecker in SpellChecker::checkWord(), split
any hyphenated phrase into its components and test them individually; if
all check correct, we are done (spelling correct).

3. If one or more parts check incorrect, try the entire hyphenated phrase.

This would improve things, in that it would work for English full-time
(on basis of rule 2), but it would allow dictionaries to contain
hyphenated constructions.

As it stands, if there is an error, the whole hyphenated phrase will get
squiggled. This is probably not a bad thing, as otherwise there would be
no easy way of adding the hyphenated phrases to custom dictionary.

How does this sound?

Tomas

        
        
                
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Received on Mon Jun 13 22:06:58 2005