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electron-userland / electron-spellchecker

Implement spellchecking, correctly
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Automatic language detection on macOS can't work that way #81

Closed awein closed 7 years ago

awein commented 7 years ago

The broken spell checking in electron apps is bothering me for a while and I decided to look into the root cause. It might be obvious for you but as it turns out: Spell checking is done "word by word"!

The macOS implementation is using the built in frameworks like it should but it's kind of no surprise that language detection based on a single word has to fail quite a lot. Especially in case the misspelled word is correct in a different language.

anaisbetts commented 7 years ago

It might be obvious for you but as it turns out: Spell checking is done "word by word"!

This is how Chromium's spell check works.