Re: RFC: spellchecking hyphenated words

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> I have come up with this algorithm for handling hyphenated words (bug
> 4973):
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> 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()).
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> 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).
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> 3. If one or more parts check incorrect, try the entire hyphenated phrase.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> How does this sound?

I like it.

Martin

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Received on Tue Jun 14 14:19:13 2005