Hey Bill,

On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:30, Bill Thayer wrote:
> I keep all autocorrects firmly turned off.

Okay; I get it.  It wasn't clear to me from your previous post that this was 
your position.

> I want these things permanently whitelisted, so that when I run my final 
> spellcheck — before I actually proofread — it doesn't ask me to correct 
> "solus" to "souls", "difficultés" to "difficulties", and "Quds" and 
> "Cyzicene" to Lord-knows-what...

Of course.

> The simple thing would be to port LocalDictionary to the new system. I've 
> found both the old and the new, but it's apparently not as simple as 
> replacing the new (empty) one by the old one with my 94,000 whitelisted 
> words, even changing the delimiters. As I said, I'll poke thru your 
> suggestions.

Hmm.  On my system (10.6.7) the LocalDictionary file is a simple word list with 
one word per line terminated with a linefeed.

The Dictionary Editor app here can do simple import/export:

http://pariahware.com/dictionaryeditor/

I doubt if it has much in the way of smarts for dealing with non-standard 
delimiters though.

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Best Regards,
Chris

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