On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:37, Meni Livne wrote:
> On Tuesday November 21 2006 22:57, you wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm sorry to interrupt your busy schedule discussing the
> > Novell/MS/Patents issue, but I encountered a very strange behaviour with
> > KDE 3.5.4.
> >
> > If I'm using the KDE built-in spell checker (based on aspell) on English
> > text, then it doesn't warn on the word "tipshim" (which means "idiots" in
> > Hebrew, but is meaningless in English). Now, I'm using Mandriva 2007 but
> > it was confirmed on MEPIS by an IRC correspondent.
>
> Check if you have the setting "consider run-together words as spelling
> errors" checked in KSpell's configuration dialogue. Having it unchecked
> isn't very useful for English, since it would consider a word like
> "tipshim" as legitimate, since it's two English words run-together: "tips +
> him"...
>
> So unless you have this setting checked, this isn't a bug.
>
It was indeed unchecked. Once I checked it, kspell recognised the
word "tipshim" as a spelling error. Albeit it suggested "tip shim" instead
of "tips him". What's "shim"? ;-)
In any case, thanks. Meni++.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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