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QA check: some terms in source and in target should be exactly the same

Sometimes while doing the spell-check, spellchecker gives an spell error when checking some terms that should remain in English, ie: LAN, YMCA, Domain Name System, and so on.

Many times, translators write those words by hand, introducing errors.

I found a useful feature on SnellSpell, another QA tool: a flag that says "Skip word if found in source and word >= [%d] letters", where %d is a number selected by the user.

PSEUDO-CODE: 

if spellcheck error

     if reported word is equal to a word in the source string

           don't report checkspell error

     else

          report checkspell error

 

EXAMPLE:

SOURCE: The Local Area Network card...        TARGET: La scheda Local Area Network...     ---> Does not give an error

SOURCE: SMTP protocol is very useful            TARGET: Il protocollo STMP è molto utile      ---> Report STMP as a mispelled word

Jacopo Perenchio
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  • I was looking for the same feature this week, as I have some big files with lots of names of companies. You can't really do a spell check – at least not efficiently – without a feature as proposed by Jacopo Perenchio. When I contacted the helpdesk about this, they suggested I drop my idea here and maybe it will be picked up by developers. But Jacopo's proposal is over two years old and still nothing has been done in this department. One could maybe add to the "pseudo code" that the instructions only apply to words that start with a capital or are completely capitalised. In my opinion, checking names is as essential and basic a feature as checking numbers, dates and interpunction. So developers, please hurry up.

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  • I was looking for the same feature this week, as I have some big files with lots of names of companies. You can't really do a spell check – at least not efficiently – without a feature as proposed by Jacopo Perenchio. When I contacted the helpdesk about this, they suggested I drop my idea here and maybe it will be picked up by developers. But Jacopo's proposal is over two years old and still nothing has been done in this department. One could maybe add to the "pseudo code" that the instructions only apply to words that start with a capital or are completely capitalised. In my opinion, checking names is as essential and basic a feature as checking numbers, dates and interpunction. So developers, please hurry up.

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