The Spellchecker in ClarisWorks and MacWrite don't support ligatures.
These are single letters that represent two other letters, like fi and fl...
ClarisWorks, ClarisImpact and MacWrite do not contain the ability to generate ligatures, but they can be created elsewhere (for example with shareware program such as Add/Strip) and brought into MacWrite or ClarisWorks.
We would need to program our spell checker to convert from ligatures to standard letters (do the spell checking), and back to ligatures again (to replace a spelling) in order for spellchecking to work. We would need to keep track of another set of characters and be able to convert them.
ClarisImpact, MacWrite and ClarisWorks seem to handle ligatures differently. It seems MacWrite will stop sending the text when it hits a ligature and ClarisWorks & ClarisImpact knows it is ligature and sends it anyway, letting the spell checker handle things. The spell checker does not handle these characters.
Example of problem using the word "Traffic", the ligature being used is "fi"....
MWII spell checker doesn't recognize it. What it brings up is the word "traf", seeing the ligature at the end of the word and cutting off the rest of the text.
In ClarisWorks 2.0 and ClarisImpact the spell checker brings up "traf ú c", the "ú" representing an unknown character.
Suggested workaround:
Check spelling on your document first, then convert characters to ligatures.