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From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: French spelling checker?
Message-ID: <3248@zap.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 90 07:03:42 GMT
References: <106000001@hpcuhd.HP.COM> <1752@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Reply-To: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Organization: (none), Montreal QC, Canada
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In article <1752@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell) writes:
>In article <106000001@hpcuhd.HP.COM>, grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a french spelling checker for MS-DOS machines?
> 
>.   Up here in Canada it seems to be fairly standard that WordPerfect is
>available with a french dictionary.

Yup...  You can get many of the major word processing packages with 
French dictionaries.  We use a French version of Word for Windows at
the office (it's fairly new & I haven't tried it yet, so I can't really
comment on how good a job it does -- I suspect it doesn't a too great
a job since in French the spelling mistakes tend to be contextual
(as it "la maison de ces dames que j'ai repainte" where "repainte"
is spelt that way because "que" stands for "maison" (and not "dames")
which is "feminin singulier"!).

I suggest you contact Microsoft (maybe in Canada if they don't know what
you're talking about at the local branch :-) or some other such company.-- 
 Denis Fortin                             | fortin@zap.uucp
  DMR Group Inc.                          |  uunet!sobeco!zap!fortin
  The opinions expressed above are my own |  fortin%zap@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu