R.L. Dane    🍵 3d ago

Forgive my kvetching, but it drives me nuts that #AOSP-based #Android OSes always treat hyphenated words as words.

For example, if you type in "apple-cart," you get a red squiggly underline and it tries to recommend replacing it with "apricot" or something. The only way around it is to add every. single. hyphenated. word. you. use. into the dictionary. 😮‍💨

It's been a constant, daily annoyance for the past five and a half years, and the only fix is to install something like GBoard and use its spelling correction engine or whatever you call it, and I'd rather not.

I've experienced it on #CalyxOS and #IodéOS, but I don't recall if #GrapheneOS has the same issue, because I only tried it briefly.

#LineageOS #Iodé #Iode #IodeOS #Graphene #GOS

Show threadGuy who's trying his best :(
@rl_dane iirc I think I've had office suites tell me to correct compound words into hyphenated words, and then immediately tell me to correct those hyphenated words into separate words :P
Apr 11 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 3d ago

@OpenComputeDesign

Heh, reminds me of circa 2001, when I had a coworker named "Grace Teh." MS Word LOVED her last name. XD

Come to think of it, that's probably when I adopted the silly tendency to accentuate things with misspelling, all-caps, and underscores, like TEH_GREATEST. XD

That was actually the first time I ever saw #AutoCorrect. Word didn't just red-squiggly-line her name, it instantly corrected Teh to The, and I had to learn to hit ctrl-z right after typing her name. ;)