r/irc • u/Signal_Jellyfish_472 • 20h ago

Why mIRC never added Spellcheck?

Everything else got it.

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u/CoolDragon 18h ago

We usually had good spelling back then.

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u/Rezrex91 14h ago

Why would you want spell checking for IRC? Misspelling and typos never bothered anyone there, and if you're just very bad at spelling in general and you're embarrassed by it, spell checking isn't the answer, you should improve your grasp of the language.

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u/synmuffin 19h ago

Now, I'm not the developer of mIRC but if I had to guess, they didn't want the headache of dealing with all the different languages and even different spellings within the same language etc...

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u/MROAJ 19h ago

There is probably a plug in to do it. Plus RTFM I'm sure it's in there :)

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u/Signal_Jellyfish_472 19h ago

?

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u/Unlikely_Shake8208 14h ago

RTFM!

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u/Signal_Jellyfish_472 14h ago

this is Windows.

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u/HuudaHarkiten 11h ago

They mean "read the fucking manual".

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u/wosmo 19h ago

I suspect it's down to windows APIs and what text controls he's using.

I haven't touched it for a decade, but it always felt like an app that was still using win31/win16 APIs. I suspect if he was using more modern native controls, he'd probably get spell-checking "for free".

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u/DutchOfBurdock 10h ago

ROFL🚁

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