Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] Source Text-string typo (spelling) fixes
Bill Meier wrote:
>> FWIW I've done a pass over the Ethereal .c source files extracting "words"
>> from quoted text strings (i.e. stuff that the user sees) and then doing
>> some (somewhat manual) reviewing for spelling, typos, etc.
Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Checked in as rev 16956.
>
> Please have a look whether I committed the right version.
>
> thanks!
>
> Joerg
There was a later version with some additional fixes, but not a problem.
I've attached a patch against SVN 16964 with the additional fixes.
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Is there a way to automate these spell checks, e.g. using grep to find appearances?
>
> Or are there too many manual checks involved?
>
>
> Could you provide at least a list of words often misspelled?
>
> Regards, ULFL
I agree completely that 'one-shot' manual spell-checks are not really interesting.
As I was going through this, I was thinking about an automated approach
such as using a spell-checker with an additional special dictionary
of all the abbreviations used in Ethereal text messages. Producing a reasonably robust
solution seemed a bit more effort than I was ready to undertake.
I can certainly provide a list of the words which were misspelled and will
see what I can come up with for a list of commonly misspelled words.
I wonder what approach, if any, to spell checking is used in other Open Source projects.
Bill Meier
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