[Bug] Bad spelling corrections for dict "Norway-nb" and special characters

[rwfranz]

@knutsi

I just came over from the Mac version of Scrivener, and cannot remember reacting to the spellchecker when I write Norwegian text. But the dict used on the Windows version at least is seriously lacking, e.g. the correct “forstod”/“forsto” (“understood”) is missing, or at least shows up as errors.

It also messes up capitalization of special characters æÆ (and maybe øØ and åÅ, but dont have an example). See attached image. The word should be correct, but the dict offers the uppercase version of the letter as a correction to the word, which at least is completely wrong.

From what I understand, the spell-checker in the Windows version is Hunspell, and the spell-checker in the Mac is something else (don’t remember offhand).

They use different dictionaries. The dictionaries are not created by L&L; they merely selected them.

Other dictionaries can be added to Scrivener (second post in this thread: [url][JH] Dictionaries - Portuguese - #7 by ricardofdiogo]). A number of sources for hunspell dictionaries are available, and one post (in this thread: [url][NB] On dictionaries... - #3 by rwfranz]) lists several sources.

I don’t know Norwegian, so can’t really offer any comments on the quality of any of those dictionaries. If you find another source for hunspell dictionaries (even if limited to just one language), please reply to that list of sources and mention its URL.