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KevinH · 01-28-2022, 01:08 PM

Anything is better than ignoring the ending period of abbreviations and making these word fragments be indistinguishable from normal words. It seems scowl default to strip the periods, and strip accents, and include way too many first names is going to lead to exactly the wrong behaviour, hidden typos and poor suggestions. For example, scowl considers "Th" to be a proper name. Any two letter proper name is going to lead to hiding spelling mistakes for words like "To", and "Th" is considered size 50. And "Th" is not the only one.

scowl has it good points but it also has some horrible points. I am thinking of removing all but the 100 top first names and all names less than 3 characters in length for this reason as well.

User word lists are much better places for those things than a spellchecker dictionary.

01-28-2022, 01:08 PM	#73
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,958 Karma: 6361444 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Anything is better than ignoring the ending period of abbreviations and making these word fragments be indistinguishable from normal words. It seems scowl default to strip the periods, and strip accents, and include way too many first names is going to lead to exactly the wrong behaviour, hidden typos and poor suggestions. For example, scowl considers "Th" to be a proper name. Any two letter proper name is going to lead to hiding spelling mistakes for words like "To", and "Th" is considered size 50. And "Th" is not the only one. scowl has it good points but it also has some horrible points. I am thinking of removing all but the 100 top first names and all names less than 3 characters in length for this reason as well. User word lists are much better places for those things than a spellchecker dictionary. Last edited by KevinH; 01-28-2022 at 02:00 PM.