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Demoed the Scalix web access to a potential client yesterday. The demo started after we had discussed transitioning their website to either a new host or move it internally since it was dreadfully slow.

So I wrote a little email stating thankyou for discussing the issues with your website with us today, etc. Spell check was on and imagine the laugh when Scalix suggested replacing the word website with obesity!

Just thought I would share that since it was quite funny at the time!

Stacy

Stacy,

:-) that gave us something like a smile, thank you! :-)

We're actually looking into improving the dictionary in a future release and also adding more features to the spell checker!

(Another one to laugh from my side - it does not know about "Linux", even though the replacements are not THAT funny....)

-- f.

That one doesn't cause a laugh, but you would amazed at how people don't know what it is!

In Germany working on Sunday! Wow :)

I lived there for 7 years, 5 of them in Darmstadt/Langen. Worked in Darmstadt, lived in Langen.

Bis Spaeter!

Florian,

Just to add to this, version 10 seemed to not know what to do with the w in 'was' the v in 'have' the o in 'so'...etc.

Gave me a chuckle, but yeah, I do hope you all can get those kinks worked out as it makes it pretty useless.

John

is the text you're trying to spellcheck the same language as your UI setting?

we're working on some improvements for the next release.

-- f.

Yeah, it's the same.

No biggy though...just one of those quirks that will get worked out.

Cheers!
John

Hi John,

Can you give a sample of the text you were checking ? I just ran a very quick test and didn't get any errors reported for either British or US English but, obviously, for German I got corrected.

Cheers

Dave

Well, I had received an email on a different account and forwarded it over to my scalix mail at home.

I then replied to that message but of course deleted my name and put the original senders name in the to...typed out my reply and checked the spelling. The spell check works if I were to create a new message and paste the body of my reply, but starts asking for suggestions to replace single letters in words when I do a reply...make sense (cause I about lost myself)?

I suppose I can test this on various other replies...maybe it's something goofy with a forward ->reply..

John

--EDIT--
I just checked a few other emails. I clicked on various emails in my inbox, clicked reply and pasted the same text in the reply...I would say half checked out ok, the other half asked me what to do with single letters in words. Here is the list of words:

haven't - doesn't know what v is, suggests replacing it with vi
so - doesn't know what o is, suggests replacing it with oh
was - doesn't know what w is, suggests replacing it with ow

These are the only three...and it's only when I reply and, to make matters harder to troubleshoot, there doesn't seem to be a pattern when it comes to the sender.

Hi John,

I've had another report of this. I was about to enter a bug but before I did I thought it would be a good idea to reproduce this and was unable to.

What browser are you using. I've tried ie 6 and firefox 1.0.7.

Thanks,
Don

Hi Don,

I've only tried the web client in Firefox 1.5. I've had this happen a few times now but have yet to really see a pattern.

It seems to be when I reply to exchange users...not sure what version...looks like 2003.

Anyhow, I can keep messing with it and report what I find if youd like.

John