Dotan Cohen wrote:
Open Office is ignoring some words that I had added to standard.dic.
Words that have the quote symbol in them, although listed in
standard.dic, have half of the word marked as spelling errors.
Apparently, OOo does not recognize the string as being a single word.
The quote character is being treated as a word separator, like the
space character.
In Hebrew, acronyms are designated with the quote character, much like
the period character is used in English acronyms. Examples with
English letters would look like this:
NAS"A (instead of N.A.S.A.)
FB"I (instead of F.B.I.)
Yes, I know that not all English acronyms use the period character,
and not necessarily those that I have chosen, but I use them to
illustrate my point. I need the string NAS"A to be recognized as a
correctly-spelled word. The word is currently in the dictionary, but
the OOo parsing engine is not recognizing it.
OpenOffice, so far as I can tell, uses Unicode rules to construct its
word break algorithms.See Unicode Special Annex #29 TEXT BOUNDARIES at
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29 . One paragraph reads:
“For Hebrew, a tailoring may include a double quotation mark between
letters, because legacy data may contain that in place of U+05F4 (״)
gershayim. This can be done by adding double quotation mark to
MidLetter. U+05F3 (׳) HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH may also be included in
a tailoring.”
I have very seldom typed Hebrew in OpenOffice. But when I tried using
the Latin double quote character instead of gerashayim in an acronym,
the spell check came up with what seemed like a version of the above
paragraph, and then suggested that I add double quote to MIDLETTER as a
tailoring. I must have clicked on something that did this, because all
seems OK now. Spell check now does not find an error.
But I think the best answer is to use gerashayim is it is the correct
character.
Jim Allan
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