Re: Raster's typing - was Re: gtkstep info

[bert hubert <ahu vvtp tn tudelft nl>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Nat Friedman wrote:

> Yes, it would catch those, but it isn't a spell-checker in the
> traditional sense; that is, it doesn't just spawn ispell -a and
> replace your word with the first match.  Instead, it permutes the word
> with a bunch of typo-specific permutations and then scores the
> resulting words against a lexicon of <word, frequency> pairs.  It is

Sounds like The Right Thing to me. Can we internationalize it?

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