https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155087
--- Comment #26 from cipricus <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #24) > (In reply to Gabriel Masei from comment #22) > > If there is a probability, however small, that the suggestion could be > > wrong or > > the existing form could be a valid one then no auto-correction should be > > performed. > > Please note that the following is just nitpicking on the "however small". > > Consider English replacement i->I. There *is* a non-zero probability, that > the author actually wanted to have the "i" in their text. One case is using > it as a Roman numeral; another is just showing an English alphabet letter in > the text, and so on. But the replacement rule is useful, because the > frequency when i was used incorrectly (I was intended) is *much* higher than > the expected use of i. > > So there is *some* margin of allowable errors here :) To adjust your observation to the principle, in > the existing form could be a valid one "valid" should be read as "word existing in the language". Given that "i" is not a word, it can be corrected in spite of the principle. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
