Lars Aronsson wrote:
Art Smoot wrote:
No. The correct thing to do is first check if "co-counsel" is in the
dictionary, than if not check both parts. Aspell does not support this
behavior yet.
I would agree with that assessment, but still the basic question is how do you
get "co-counsel" into the dictionary?
Today, Aspell first defines which characters can go into the words
of a language, and then only these characters can be used in the
dictionary. It ought to be the other way around: If the
dictionary contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" than that should be a valid
word, not because it contains valid letters but because it is in
the dictionary. There should be no need for a classification of
letters, as this could be derived from the dictionary. This would
not only allow "co-counsel" but also "Absolut Vodka" to be a
"word" in the dictionary, even if "Absolut" on its own is not.
Sure its easy to be able to accept words like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "Absolut
Vodka" into the dictionary. But in order to spell check a document with those
words in it Aspell must some how recognize that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "Absolut
Vodka" is one word. That is not an easy task. Things can become even more
complicated when a word is misspelled. See:
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html
for some of the many complications.
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