Re: UK English Spelling

We don't even get the chance to use Word for spell checking. I'm in Canada and we use British spelling for the most part so it's a question of having WM remember every new word that has two or more ways of being spelled.

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Peter
"Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam_@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e9T8g30FJHA.1268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is that true? I would assume that any localized version of Windows would have a localized mail program. How about Windows Live Mail, the supposed replacement for Windows Mail? That has five languages available in the U.S. version, but from the complaints in the WLM newsgroup there aren't any more languages than that. It looks to me, if spell checking is a feature that you need, then Outlook is the only Microsoft solution that "really" works.

Spanish has supposedly sixty-five dialects, and two (?) sort orders. Since the spelling is darn near phonetic, there isn't any real difference, say between lunfardohispano and chicano as far as word spelling goes. (These are real dialects, not the nation-state based ones included in Windows, heh.) The sorting issue depends on the digraphs "ll", "rr" and "ch". Feel free to correct me if I missed one or two. These are considered "letters" in classical Spanish, and words are sorted according to an alphabetical order that includes them as such. In "International Sort" I believe that they are considered two letters each, and sorted accordingly, although phonetically they are still considered letters by Hispanophones.

Earle

"Peter" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uQbdA9yFJHA.4056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
They could produce dozens of language packs for Ultimate and not any more languages for the WM dictionary...shame!

(..& what the heck is "Spanish - International Sort" ? ) Very amateurish if you ask me.

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Peter
"Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam_@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%235A9L$tFJHA.4864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"English dictionary" with "English" capitalized, or capitalised, whatever. "Extremely", not "extremaly". You really do need this feature more than I do. {:oþ

Most people I know have gotten Vista as part of a computer/OS package, so the computer manufacturer actually pays for the support, and does much of the price gouging. Don't blame MS alone for your high prices. Someone on your side of the Atlantic has gotten their hands on a big piece of it.

It's worse than you think. I looked into providing an English (UK) dictionary for Windows Mail, and while continuing to use the same dictionary, MS changed the file format, making this impossible unless I get some inside info.

Cheers,

Earle

"DavidAtCaspian" <DavidAtCaspian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0ECD6E84-8AC8-4F01-A9B1-E23638E47FD7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The point being that MS charges a LOT more in the UK for these products, and
uses the excuse that support is more costly in the UK than anywhere else in
the unvierse.

So having paid a huge premium, we get the some product as those in the USA,
with no attempt whatsoever to spell things properly.


Yes we all have our pet hates: mine are "gotten", which has only one known
proper use - Ill gotten gains.

"burglarised" = the word is burgled. You get burgled by a burglar who goes
out burgling.


The fact is that with windows mail, allowing access to a real english
dictionary is in fact extremaly easy to do, MS just couldn't be arsed.


So another item to my list of things I hate about vista I suppose.



"mac" wrote:


"Morton" <mort@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:489102a4$0$5009$607ed4bc@xxxxxxxxx
> Pixie wrote:
>> How can I change the spell check to check UK English spelling? At >> the
>> moment it appears only to check American English.............very
>> irritating!
>>
>
> Winston Churchill, whose mother was American, famously wrote that, > "The
> United States and England are separated by the same language." Is it
> really necessary to bring all sorts of flag-waving comments into > this
> discourse? Windows is, after all, an American product, and imperfect
> though it may be, it has helped to tie the world together. Why > should
> "color" vs. "colour" be so irritating to you? Have you nothing else > at all
> to irritate you, you lucky person you.
>
> Morton
> USA

Hi Morton, "Pixie" never mentioned Colour, he asked how to enable the
English (UK) spull chuck.

I did, as an example, of how you lot can't spull proper, like we do in the
Mother Country :-))
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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP : Mail.
[DTS] UK.








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