Kelvin Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I maintain the Australian English dictionary files, which are now
> used across many projects.
> 
> The Australian English dictionary file contains approximately 4,000
> hyphenated words.
> 
> Recently as a result of this work I retested how OpenOffice.org
> handles hyphenated words and found it doesn't work as I expected.
> 
> For example, the term bric-a-brac is in the Australian English
> dictionary for OpenOffice.org, is in the Macquarie dictionary, and
> recognised correctly by Microsoft Word. It is not handled correctly
> in OpenOffice.org.
> 
> OpenOffice.org appears to check each word as being correct and
> ignores the hyphens.
> 
> I would like to raise an enhancement request for hyphenated words to
> be handled correctly for Australian English.
> 
> Could a second person using Australian English please confirm this
> is an issue.

I can confirm having the same problem in OOo. (FWIW the identical 
problem exists with this dictionary in ClipMate.)

Regards,

Ron Clough

> 
> I have checked Issuezilla and not found an appropriate issue. If
> someone knows if an issue has been raised please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Kelvin Eldridge
> OpenOffice.org Australian English dictionary creator/maintainer.
> www.JustLocal.com.au (Links to dictionary file pages located at the
> bottom of the page.)


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