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Subject:Re: Fonts and spell-checkers From:foremangraphics -at- juno -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:35:24 -0800
>From a slightly different angle, I was setting up an interactive website
form and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. And, after hours of
staring at code, it occurred to me that I had indavertently copied code
as a "one" instead of a lower case "El." Did that cause havoc.
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:49:09 -0500 "Dan Goldstein"
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> writes:
> I was spell-checking a document, and the word that got caught in
> Word's
> craw was "Installation". Word insisted on replacing that word with
> itself. I was tempted to add this perfectly normal word to the
> dictionary, but it just seemed so strange... until I realized that I
> was
> actually looking at a lower-case "El," which Word wanted to replace
> with
> a capital "Eye."
>
> Google shows 14,700 instances of that word with a hidden,
> lower-case
> "El."
>
> Yes, it's Friday.
>
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