DrHouse said:
That's what I was talking about. Seems you can add your own dictionary in there...
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A post from smnevans on another forum:
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"The user dictionary is designed to help people writing Japanese or Chinese. It allows users to pre-set which Chinese characters appear when they type a phonetic version of a word. It's commonly used for names of places and people and is a standard feature of most character based input systems and, as such, is a very welcome addition to iOS.
Entering words in here will neither add them to the auto-correct dictionary, stop them from being underlined in red or enable any Text Expander like features."
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Judging from the structure of the Japanese keyboard "Edit Dictionary" installed in mine in which there are two data fields: "Word" and "Yomi (reading)," this would appear to be accurate.
In other words this feature could be used to make the international dictionary remember English words but a knowledge of either kana (Japanese) or pinyin (Chinese) would be required.
Example:
To get this to remember your email address you could add the following entry which I have confirmed to work:
Word:
[email protected]
Yomi: じょん
Switching to the Japanese international keyboard (one tap) and typing じょん will convert to
[email protected]. Then one must tap at least once again to return to the English keyboard.
In a way then, yes, one can add one's own dictionary using this feature, though it would have to do with (auto)correction rather than spellchecking. And, it is only useful for those who know kana or pinyin.
