[Lexicog] Spellchecking Unicode in MS-Office

[Piotr Bański]

Hello,

Jan F. Ullrich writes:
[...]
> A few years ago we transferred all of our textual materials into Unicode and
> we also programmed a powerful morphoparser and lemmatizer that help us
> create a quite comprehensive list of word forms. But we are having a problem
> using this list for spell-checking in MS-Office, because one of the Unicode
> characters that we use is not recognized by MS-Word. It is the Latin letter
> h with caron (U+021F)
[...]
> I am aware that there are other options for spell-checking a text, but since
> the MS-Word is such a main-stream editor used in most schools and colleges
> where the Lakota language is taught and used, it would be really nice if we
> could make the spellchecking function work in it.
> 
> We would really appreciate any advice on how solve this?

This is not a solution to your problem but rather a hint on how to try
and go around it (saving some money on the way) -- have you tried
OpenOffice? http://why.openoffice.org/

I've just tried your character in both MS Word and OO Writer: Word
didn't like it, while Writer displayed it with no problem -- that is
obviously only the beginning, I don't know how spell-checkers would
handle it. Perhaps it may be worthwhile to assign a clever student to
try out OpenOffice and see if it eliminates your problem.

Using OpenOffice and creating a custom spell-checker for it is
unproblematic (I wouldn't be surprised if you could import Word
spell-checkers into OO; it can certainly open and save Microsoft Office
documents). And it's free and customizable, with a responsive community.
 All you can lose here is a bit of time devoted to trying it.

Good luck,

  Piotr


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