Damien, As an experiment, I prepared ten words in Irish which use á or í or non-English spelling such as ceist or dtí. I then wrote a phrase in Irish using words that require the sine fada. When I ran the spell-check each of the misspelled words came up as suggested replacements and were corrected when I accepted the suggestion. I can explain how to set up your own custom dictionaries to do this if that helps you. If you are looking for a word for word translator then a routine that Duxbury produce called "Scrub.exe" could be used. This requires a flat file with substitution rules. The routine is part of the Duxbury Braille Translator suite in which the first field is replaced by the second field when there is a match with the source text to be translated. Again, I can explain this more fully if you think it would serve your purposes. I can also let you have the scrub routine for free if you need it. Is any of this a help to you? All the best, Cearbhall T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cearbhall O'Meadhra Sent: 03 August 2012 15:46 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: dictionaries. Damien, I would like to understand exactly what you doing. Would you like to explain in more details? If you created your own custom dictionary in MS Word would that solve the problem? All the best, Cearbhall T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx =========================================================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org ==========================================================The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org