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Chapter 5 - Spell Checker / Using the Spell Checker

Processing of Words Passed to the Spell Checker

Many of the spell-checking functions accept a word as a parameter. This parameter is processed similarly by these functions. First, leading and trailing punctuation are stripped from the word. Next the spell checker remembers whether the word was capitalized or all caps, and converts the word to lower-case. If the word contains a curly apostrophe ('), it is converted to a normal apostrophe (because that's what's in the dictionary).

Note that a hyphen is not considered to be a valid symbol by the spell checker. The application must split hyphenated words before calling the spell checker.