Issue 13543 - myspell doesn't use REP rules
Summary: myspell doesn't use REP rules
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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Product: Infrastructure
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Website general issues (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2003-04-17 09:58 UTC by maccy
Modified: 2013-02-24 20:34 UTC (History)
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Description maccy 2003-04-17 09:58:54 UTC 
in OO 1.1b1 the REP rules of dictionaries are no longer used. 
Delfin should be corrected to Delphin (there are this ph f rules) but OO doesn't bring up any 
suggestions for this case. Other spellcheckeing seems to work well.
Comment 1 khendricks 2003-04-17 12:54:43 UTC 
Hi,  
  
I just tried it on my OOo 1.1 build and the spellchecker successfully suggested  
changing:  
  
dolfin to dolphin  
telefone to telephone  
telegraf to telegraph  
  
So I looked further and Delfin is not a word in the en_US dictionary and neither is  
Delphin so it will not suggest a word that is not part of the dictionary.  (all testing done  
with en_US dictionary).  
  
If you  are using another dictionary, then please contact that dictionary author to add in  
the proper replacement patterns. (delphin is the common word for dolphin in German  
isn't it?, perhaps the de_DE dictionary needs to add some replacement patterns?) 
  
The world delphin in English  is typically only found in unabridged dictionaries:  
  
delphin  
  
 \Del"phin\, n. [L. delphinus a dolphin.] (Chem.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of  
the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.  
  
 Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.  
  
I also found one reference to it in a specialized medical dictionary.  
  
 It is not part of the en_US dictionary since the word istypically not used.   
  
If you want you can add it to your own dictionary or ask that it be added to   
the en_US dictionary if you can cite its use in documents.  
  
 I am closing this as works for me.  
  
Kevin
Comment 2 khendricks 2003-04-17 15:14:09 UTC 
Hi Bjoern! 
 
Reopening this. 
 
Thanks to your extra explanation. 
 
Yes, there is a latent bug existing since the very beginning of OOo spellchecking when 
making suggestions for words with initial capital letters that only exist as intial capital 
letters and I can recreate it. 
 
(since German capitalizes proper nouns and English does not as much, the bug is actually 
much easier to see under German). 
 
I have no idea how this worked for you in OOo 1.0.1 for words with capital letters! 
 
Either way I have a fix for it and will commit it for OOo 1.1 Beta 2 
 
Thanks for your bug report! 
 
Kevin
Comment 3 khendricks 2003-05-28 16:32:50 UTC 
Hi,

This should now be fixed in OOo 1.1 Beta2.

So I am resolving this as fixed.  Please verify it when you have a moment.

Thanks for your bug report!

Kevin
Comment 4 caolanm 2006-12-15 15:29:21 UTC 
closed