Newton Developer Technical Information: Newton Programmer's Guide: 2.1 OS Addendum /

Chapter 5 - Spell Checker / About the Spell Checker

Limitations

There are some limitations to the spell checker.

• There's a maximum character length of 50 for both input words and returned guesses. If a word is longer than 50 characters, it won't be flagged as containing a spelling error. Note that there are other word length limitations within the system (usually 30 characters) preventing long words from being added to the personal word list, for example.

• The spell checker doesn't allow random insertion, deletion, or substitution during the phonetic substitution. This means, for example, that it won't correct the word "hexllow", because that would require both removing the "x" and substituting "o" for "ow".