RE: List and user comment

["Albert Wiersch" <address@hidden>]

Hi Glenn,

The problem is more that the dictionary doesn't translate HTML character
entities in words. There should be an option to set so that if a word fails
then the word is checked for character entities. If any are found, then the
entities are converted to the character and the word is checked again. What
do you think? Of course the parser would have to accept character entities
as if it was a single character because that is what it represents.

Success,
Albert Wiersch
AI Internet Solutions
address@hidden
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Crouch - ESB [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:31 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: List and user comment


> What happened to this list? Is it still working?

Yup - no one has had much to say...

> User comment:
> after installing the new version 4.51 I used the new spell-checker.
>
> Unfortunatley in my humble opion this feature is useless for
> the german
> language, the validator has the same problem as homesites
> spellchecker:
> Because it is good style to mask the german umlauts in html,
> e.g. german
> umlaut a (ä) becomes ä the german dictionary is unless.
> Maybe you could support a better way in a future version?

We are looking for a better German Dictionary - but we are limited by what
is freely available, and the fact that we are not German speakers and thus
are dependent on others to tell us how good or bad things are...

We do have a couple of German speaking users who we are working with, hoping
to improve our German offerings :)

One of the ways we keep the price down for Addict is that we are not paying
for Dictionary licenses (and neither are you) - sadly this does mean we
can't offer guarantees about how good or reliable a Dictionary is. Just that
we are putting effort into making the Dictionaries better...

Glenn Crouch mailto:address@hidden
Addictive Software Support  ICQ:36017076
mailto:address@hidden
http://www.addictive.net