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    sierra052 | # 1 | 2010-01-10, 11:59 | Report

    Hello. I am a previous iPhone and Mytouch user. I am curious about how to add commonly used words (i.e. slangs) to the dictionary so that it auto completes? I did a search on this and to my knowledge, I did not find anything that pertains to my issue. Another thing, usually, when you hit the space bar twice, a period is inserted but that does not seem to work here and neither does auto-capitalization (i vs. I). I am not a developer or particularly tech savvy so I'd appreciate very simple solutions if you have any. Cheers

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    torpedo48 | # 2 | 2010-01-10, 12:20 | Report

    Hi sierra052. There's actually no need of adding words to the internal dictionary, it simply does that automatically. Just try to write a strange word in an application with autocomplete support (e.g. conversations), then try to write it again (even in another application with autocomplete support): it will autocomplete. For the autocapitalization, it is supported just by some Maemo applications, not in "Web", for example.

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    edgar2 | # 3 | 2010-01-10, 12:30 | Report

    it would be nice to edit the dictionary though, ie removing misspelled words

    edit: from another thread:
    Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
    The best I can tell you is the files that track and store word completion suggestions appear to be:
    • /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.personal.dictionary
    • /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.used.dictionary

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    antoarts | # 4 | 2010-01-10, 12:41 | Report

    Originally Posted by edgar2 View Post
    it would be nice to edit the dictionary though, ie removing misspelled words
    Yeah, that would be nice

    Where does it store the words? With that information someone could create an application for managing the word list (add/remove/edit words etc)

    EDIT: This might be of value

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    arjunkumar87 | # 5 | 2010-04-15, 15:06 | Report

    sorry to bump this thread!
    personal dictionary is empty and used dictionary doesn't contain all the words that i have used/mispelled
    is there any other location to look for it?

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    Mr. Ben | # 6 | 2010-06-09, 14:17 | Report

    bump again (as lame as that is) I'm sick of seeing "justmfinished" try to auto complete when I just mean "just". I accidentally hit "m" instead of space and now I'm scarred for life!

    its also rather telling that if I hit "f" it autos to "f*ck" and "b" autos to "boobs". I'm a sad, dirty many apparently.

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    Rob1n | # 7 | 2010-06-10, 19:43 | Report

    After some puzzling over the file format, I've got an app written which allows the deletion/addition of entries from the auto-complete dictionary. Unfortunately the N900 seems to cache the auto-complete entries and overwrites any changes whenever it adds new terms. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get this cache flushed?

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    Rob1n | # 8 | 2010-06-11, 10:09 | Report

    I figured out that just killing hildon-input-method forces it to restart and reload the dictionary. I've therefore finished up and released AutoComplete Editor.

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