Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice

Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 19:03:40 IST 2010


> The first issue is acronyms (rashei tevot) and abbreviations. In Hebrew,
> these use the geresh and gershaim (or single or double quotes), which is
> part of the word. OpenOffice does not understand that these quotes are part
> of the Hebrew word, and splits the word on them. As a result all acronyms are
> marked as spelling mistakes. This is really annoying, especially for certain
> types of documents where acronyms are common.
>

I filed this bug somewhere, but I cannot find it. While looking for it
I found this other bug that might interest you, though:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169403

If I find the hspell bug I'll post back.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il
http://what-is-what.com



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