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rogerc
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 Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Spell check of capitalized (upper case) words |
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I find that upper case words do not get spell checked.
Why? |
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OPENSTEP
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This is standard behaviour of spell checking on Mac OS X. Apple does not appear to spellcheck all-caps words under 6 characters in length. I don't know why Apple made that decision, but most likely I can think that they'd probably be acronyms if that short.
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: |
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You can see this behaviour in TextEdit & text entry fields in Safari 3.0, for example.
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ovvldc
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Is that just in English or everywhere? In German, all nouns are capitalized, so that rule would be a bit silly there...
Best wishes,
Oscar
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Samwise
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| ovvldc wrote: | Is that just in English or everywhere? In German, all nouns are capitalized, so that rule would be a bit silly there...
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I think they're talking about word in all capitals. So "Frua" (instead of "Frau") would be caught by the spellchecker, but "FRUA" wouldn't… |
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