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:::::: I'd rather tell a user about apparently wrong input (as Google does: "did you mean ....?") instead of accepting it. Anyway, centigrade and Celsius are the only names for that scale that I know. Thanks for telling me about Celsius' merits. --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 05:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
::::::: Google has a different purpose; when somebody enters a word (or words) to be found, Google doesn't know (for sure) if the word is misspelled or not, as a matter of fact, it will find entries for misspelled words, and of course, things that aren't words at all. Google's purpose is to assist in finding stuff. The purpose of (my) temperature conversion is to convert a unit (or units) of temperature scales to another scale (actually, a set of temperature scales), and if the user enters (misspelled) celcius, I know what he meant to enter. Google can't do that for certain, so it prompts the user and may go with the correct spelling (which is a judgement call, for it may be that the misspelled word is what the user wanted to find); which is what my program does (goes with correct spelling). Google, of course, allows the user to force Google to use the original word (or the correct spelled word, I suspect there is some heuristics going on), but that isn't applicable for this application (program) and would be waste of the user's time to force re-entering of the temperature scale, and without a hint, the user wouldn't necessarily know the correct spelling (unless the user knew it was a typo). If a user specified ''celcius'', there isn't a need or reason to reject the request, and force a correction. The conversion program isn't the grammar police, just a conversion tool. I don't find fault with a program that rejects only but the correct spellings, I just feel it is less useful than a program that is more forgiving, and does, in effect, do what I mean (DWIM). As I understood the task's description, it is to convert value(s) from some temperature scale(s) to another set of scales. That it allows a user's feeble attempts at spelling is just a feature of the program. The fact that ''celcius'' is a common misspelling, it means that many people must be using it. Note that no misspelled words are shown in the (conversion) output except possibly for the input echo, the preferred spelling is used. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 07:40, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
:::::::: Should wp:Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit be wp:Degrees Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit ? What's the point of these tags? --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 05:17, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
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