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Summary

Adds Türkçe (Turkish) and Македонски (Macedonian) to Settings → Writing → Word Dictionaries.

SymSpell publishes no list for either language, so both are built with SymSpell's own method: corpus frequencies intersected with a Hunspell word list.

  • Frequencies: OpenSubtitles 2018 lists from hermitdave/FrequencyWords (content CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Validation: every word must be accepted by Hunspell, using wooorm/dictionaries (tr MIT, mk GPL-3.0-or-later). Each word is checked with the hunspell CLI rather than matched against .dic stems, because both languages are inflected and most valid word forms never appear literally in the stem list.
  • Size: the top 100k accepted words, the same size as the bundled German and Italian lists.
  • Reproducible: scripts/build_hunspell_frequency_dictionary.py rebuilds both files byte for byte from pinned commits. Hashes, sources and licenses are in SpellingDictionaries/NOTICE.md, the full CC BY-SA 4.0 text is in Licenses/, and THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md is updated.

Two language-specific fixes this needed:

  • Turkish casing. Swift's locale-free lowercased() turns I into i (Turkish uses ı) and İ into i̇, and uppercased() turns i into I (Turkish uses İ). Correction lookup, TypoCaseTransfer, WordPrefixIndex, and WordCompletionFallback now take the dictionary's locale (SpellingDictionaryLanguage.caseLocale). Other languages behave as before.
  • Macedonian detection. NLLanguageRecognizer has no Macedonian model; a Macedonian sentence comes back as Bulgarian (0.99998). When Macedonian is enabled, SpellingLanguageResolver first decides from letters unique to each alphabet (ѓ ќ ѕ ј љ њ џ for Macedonian, ы э ё щ ъ й for Russian), and otherwise uses Bulgarian as Macedonian's stand-in in the recognizer. Turkish is recognized natively.

The new codes tr and mk are appended to SpellingDictionaryLanguage, which keeps the persisted catalog order.

Validation

xcodebuild test -workspace build/cotabby-dependencies/Cotabby.xcworkspace -scheme Cotabby \
  -destination 'platform=macOS' -derivedDataPath build/DerivedData CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO
Executed 2652 tests, with 14 tests skipped and 1 failure

The failure is AXTextGeometryResolverTests.test_resolveCaretRect_returnsRealGeometry_forNativeTextField, which reads live Accessibility geometry and fails the same way on unmodified main on this machine.

New TurkishMacedonianDictionaryTests (7):

  • both lists are bundled and start with each language's most common words
  • Macedonian-only letters select Macedonian over Russian, and Russian-only letters the reverse
  • Turkish text selects Turkish over English
  • Turkish I/İ recasing
  • a capitalized Turkish typo (Işk → Işık)
  • a Turkish prefix lookup with a capital İ

The existing resource test now covers both new files.

Not run: a hands-on correction test in a signed build, and swiftlint --strict.

Risk / rollout notes

  • About 3.5 MB of new resources (tr-100k.txt 1.5 MB, mk-100k.txt 2.0 MB). Indexes load on demand, as for the other languages.
  • License review: the derived files carry CC BY-SA 4.0 (share-alike) from the frequency source, and the Macedonian Hunspell list is GPL-3.0-or-later. Both are bundled as separate data files with their notices, like the existing GPL/LGPL/MPL dictionaries. Please confirm this fits the project's licensing policy.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added spelling dictionaries for Turkish and Macedonian.
    • Improved language detection for Macedonian and Russian text, including cases with distinguishing Cyrillic letters.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved spelling corrections and word completion for languages with special casing, including Turkish dotted and dotless “i.”
    • Preserved the typed word’s capitalization more consistently when suggesting corrections.

RetriggerConfidence Score: 3/5

The PR should not merge until mixed-script routing and capitalized Turkish dictionary entries are handled.

Fix All in CodexFindings

  1. P1 Older Macedonian text overrides Russian ▶
  2. P1 Capitalized Turkish entries become unreachable ▶

Summary

Adds bundled Turkish and Macedonian spelling dictionaries, a pinned generation script and license notices, plus locale-aware casing and Macedonian language selection.

  • Turkish corpus capitalization is not reconciled with case-normalized lookup.
  • Macedonian letter detection can override more recent Russian context.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A[Enabled dictionaries and recent text] --> B{Macedonian letter anywhere?}
  B -- Yes --> C[Macedonian index]
  B -- No --> D{Russian letter present?}
  D -- Yes --> E[Russian index]
  D -- No --> F[Natural Language recognition]
  C --> G[Correction or completion]
  E --> G
  F --> G
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SymSpell publishes no Turkish or Macedonian list, so both are built the
way SymSpell built its own: OpenSubtitles 2018 frequencies from
hermitdave/FrequencyWords (CC BY-SA 4.0), kept only when Hunspell
accepts the word (wooorm/dictionaries: tr MIT, mk GPL-3.0-or-later),
top 100k. scripts/build_hunspell_frequency_dictionary.py reproduces both
files byte for byte from pinned commits; NOTICE.md records hashes and
licenses.

- Case conversion follows each dictionary's language, so Turkish "I"
  lowercases to "ı" and "i" uppercases to "İ" in correction lookup, case
  transfer, prefix completion, and the local word-completion fallback.
- Natural Language has no Macedonian model (it reports Bulgarian), so the
  resolver decides Macedonian vs Russian from letters unique to each
  alphabet and otherwise uses Bulgarian as Macedonian's stand-in.
- New codes "tr" and "mk" are appended to the catalog, keeping the
  persisted order contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The app adds Turkish and Macedonian spelling dictionaries, registers their resources and language labels, and uses language-specific casing during correction and word completion. Language resolution adds Cyrillic-letter checks for Macedonian and Russian. A script and bundled notices document dictionary generation and licensing.

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Turkish and Macedonian spelling support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dictionary generation and licensing
scripts/build_hunspell_frequency_dictionary.py, Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/Licenses/*, Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/NOTICE.md, THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md
The script builds frequency dictionaries from pinned sources and validates candidates with Hunspell. The notices and license files record the sources, hashes, and license terms.
Dictionary catalog and app resources
Cotabby/Models/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryCatalog.swift, Cotabby.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
The catalog adds Turkish and Macedonian labels, resource names, and case locales. The Xcode project adds the dictionaries and licenses to both app targets.
Cyrillic language resolution
Cotabby/Support/Spelling/SpellingLanguageResolver.swift
The resolver checks distinguishing Cyrillic letters before Natural Language recognition when Macedonian is enabled. Macedonian maps to Bulgarian for Natural Language recognition.
Locale-aware correction and completion
Cotabby/Support/Spelling/TypoCaseTransfer.swift, Cotabby/Support/Spelling/WordPrefixIndex.swift, Cotabby/Services/Spelling/SymSpellCorrector.swift, Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+WordCompletion.swift, CotabbyTests/Support/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryResourceTests.swift
Correction and completion use the selected language’s locale for casing and prefix operations. Tests cover the new dictionaries, language resolution, and Turkish casing and prefix lookup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: fujacob

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 190af

Switching from Macedonian to Russian text can produce suggestions from the wrong dictionary. Resolve conflicting language markers before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 190af

The inspected changes keep spelling and completion local and preserve conservative matching controls. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because the two new dictionary payloads and their claimed reproducibility were not independently verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Altered upstream vocabulary could influence suggestions for users enabling these dictionaries after that data is generated and packaged. The inspected runtime consumer is local spelling behavior; it does not grant the dictionary source remote runtime access or cross-service authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The generation boundary accepts only tr or mk, uses fixed download destinations inside a temporary directory, and invokes hunspell with an argument list rather than shell interpolation. Upstream dictionary data is still parsed by the developer-installed executable under the invoking user's authority.
  • observed — Locale-aware completion retains ambiguity abstention, a dictionary frequency-margin requirement, and exact typed-prefix validation. Existing dismissal and presentation gates remain downstream of fallback selection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Preparation failures before final output writing are isolated to temporary inputs and do not publish a replacement dictionary. The final write is not atomic, so interruption during that step can leave incomplete developer output; no inspected runtime or build hook automatically consumes a live regeneration step.
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) -> SpellingDictionaryLanguage? {
guard enabledLanguages.contains(.macedonian) else { return nil }
let lowered = sample.lowercased()
if lowered.contains(where: { macedonianOnlyLetters.contains($0) }) { return .macedonian }

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P1 Older Macedonian text overrides Russian When Macedonian and Russian are enabled, any Macedonian-specific letter in the preceding 800 characters selects Macedonian before the code checks for Russian letters. If a user writes a Macedonian sentence followed by Russian prose, a Russian word can therefore be sent to the Macedonian dictionary, producing the wrong correction or completion. This also affects automatic correction when enabled.

Fix in Codex Fix in Claude Code

work_dir = Path(work)
frequencies = work_dir / f"{language}_full.txt"
fetch(
f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/{FREQUENCY_WORDS_COMMIT}"

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P1 Capitalized Turkish entries become unreachable The generated list keeps the source capitalization, but correction and prefix lookup lowercase queries while storing entries unchanged. The bundled list contains İstanbul but no istanbul, so typing İsta without a matching document reference cannot find its dictionary completion. The case difference also uses up one of the two allowed edits during correction. Normalize entries for lookup while retaining the spelling needed for display.

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CotabbyTests/Support/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryResourceTests.swift (1)

105-109: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the coordinator caller with a Turkish completion test.

The current test only exercises WordPrefixIndex.candidates(for:). It does not cover localWordCompletion, which passes the resolved Turkish locale to WordCompletionFallback.suffix. For İsta and istanbul, the returned suffix is "nbul". Add a deterministic coordinator test using CoordinatorRig, an empty reference context, and a Turkish dictionary. Call localWordCompletion and assert "nbul".

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lines 105 - 109:
Add a deterministic coordinator test that exercises localWordCompletion with a
Turkish dictionary and an empty reference context, using CoordinatorRig; verify
that completing “İsta” against “istanbul” returns the suffix “nbul”.

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Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Spelling/SpellingLanguageResolver.swift:
- Around line 73-75: Update the language-resolution logic that checks
macedonianOnlyLetters and russianOnlyLetters so a sample containing markers from
both languages does not unconditionally resolve to Macedonian. Use recent
context to determine the language, or return nil when the markers conflict so
the recognizer can assess the sample.

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@CotabbyTests/Support/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryResourceTests.swift:
- Around line 105-109: Add a deterministic coordinator test that exercises
localWordCompletion with a Turkish dictionary and an empty reference context,
using CoordinatorRig; verify that completing “İsta” against “istanbul” returns
the suffix “nbul”.

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  • Cotabby.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
  • Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+WordCompletion.swift
  • Cotabby/Models/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryCatalog.swift
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/Licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/Licenses/mk.txt
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/Licenses/tr.txt
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/NOTICE.md
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/mk-100k.txt
  • Cotabby/Resources/SpellingDictionaries/tr-100k.txt
  • Cotabby/Services/Spelling/SymSpellCorrector.swift
  • Cotabby/Support/Spelling/SpellingLanguageResolver.swift
  • Cotabby/Support/Spelling/TypoCaseTransfer.swift
  • Cotabby/Support/Spelling/WordPrefixIndex.swift
  • CotabbyTests/Support/Spelling/SpellingDictionaryResourceTests.swift
  • THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md
  • scripts/build_hunspell_frequency_dictionary.py

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Comment on lines +73 to +75
if lowered.contains(where: { macedonianOnlyLetters.contains($0) }) { return .macedonian }
if enabledLanguages.contains(.russian), lowered.contains(where: { russianOnlyLetters.contains($0) }) {
return .russian

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not let an earlier Macedonian letter override current Russian text.

If the sample contains both letter sets, this branch always selects Macedonian. For example, preceding text that starts with “Ќе дојдам утре.” and continues with “Мы были в городе и” selects Macedonian for the following Russian word. The correction and completion callers then query the wrong dictionary. Resolve conflicting markers using the recent context, or return nil and let the recognizer assess the sample.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @Cotabby/Support/Spelling/SpellingLanguageResolver.swift
around lines 73 - 75:
Update the language-resolution logic that checks macedonianOnlyLetters and
russianOnlyLetters so a sample containing markers from both languages does not
unconditionally resolve to Macedonian. Use recent context to determine the
language, or return nil when the markers conflict so the recognizer can assess
the sample.

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