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.

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