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10.6: Globally enable text substitutions and spell check
Authored by: OverZealous on Oct 01, '09 01:26:00PM

One possible reason it's not enabled by default is that automatic replacement can cause problems in certain instances. For example, not all web sites properly support Unicode characters (which is what characters like the em-dash are).

Also, if you are writing code, automatically replacing (c) with © would definitely be frustrating, because you might type:

c = uppercase(c);

Which is correct, but get

c = uppercase©

Which just doesn't mean anything :-)



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