GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595375
Dictionary doesn't show "suggested words" for mistyped words but does so for correctly-typed words
Last modified: 2021-06-10 11:23:01 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419395 "Steps and Results: 1) Go to Applications -> Office -> Dictionary 2) Type in "comunity" and hit ENTER. 3) RESULT: "Error while looking up definition" in side bar. No similar words 4) Type in "community" and hit ENTER. 5) RESULT: definition available in side bar (small default size). Similar words appear in main text area. The similar words are: Community community community COMMUNITY Community The problem here is that typing in "community" should result in a simple text area with the definition. Instead dictionary acts like I misspelled it. gnome-utils 2.27.2-0ubuntu1"
I think this is an issue of the matching strategy used bit dictd.org. we cannot rely on any matching strategy being available, but we could have a list of preferred ones — namely 'soundex' and 'levhenstein' — that we could try first.
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