Adding words to the dictionary?
 

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

Re: Adding words to the dictionary
 

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.

Re: Adding words to the dictionary
 

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

edit: from another thread:

Re: Adding words to the dictionary
 

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

Re: Adding words to the dictionary?
 

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?

Re: Adding words to the dictionary?
 

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.

Re: Adding words to the dictionary?
 

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?

Re: Adding words to the dictionary?
 

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.