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Where�s the dictonary
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As you know there is a fantastic dictionary in OS X cocoa applications. I would like to know where this dictionary is located, and what form it is in.
Anyone....
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The real MacMicke�
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Well, there is a dictionary in /usr/share/dict/ (the 1934 Webster's Second International, with 234,936 words) but this isn't the same dictionary used by the spell-checker.
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The 4 o'clock train will be a bus.
It will depart at 20 minutes to 5.
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hmmm... Does cocoa use some internal spellchecker then. It does have the ability to learn new spellings....
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The real MacMicke�
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New spellings are stored in a plain text file inside ~/Library/Spelling/
Edit: Ok, maybe it's not plain text.. but you can view it as such. This file looks like it might be the system-wide dictionary, but it is encoded (compressed?): /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Resources/bindict
[ 06-07-2001: Message edited by: honeydew ]
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It would be good to see specialised (and localised/localized) dictionaries released in this format so you could simply copy & paste the contents into your own.
Chris
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It would be good to see specialised (and localised/localized) dictionaries released in this format so you could simply copy & paste the contents into your own.
Chris
Exactly! That's what I was thinking of... 
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The real MacMicke�
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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What I would like to know is....
How do you delete / edit the Spelling library?.
Coz the american spelling of color is wrong I would like to remove it...
Colour is how it's spelt and it looks bad in reports etc...
If any one knows how to please post cheers...
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Yes, I too would like to see localised dictionaries. Australian spelling is not the same as US spelling (it is pretty much the same as UK spelling though, so even that would be better).
I have noticed though that the dictionary as it is seems to be missing a lot of common words/abbreviations (VCR, DVD, Microsoft ). Have you seen the alternative it gives for "spellchecker"?
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