I'm trying to get rid of the letter ij

[fraternl]

I noticed a line about replacing the Dutch letter ij into the letter i and j in this file.
In that file it only does this when a word doesn't exist, but I prefer to have it done always.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/blob/main/Dictionaries/nld_OCRFixReplaceList.xml

I thought this would work, but it doesn't.
What am I doing wrong or is it just not working?

No examples are given for PartialWordsAlways, so I had to do some guessing.

<ReplaceList>
  <PartialWordsAlways>
    <WordPart from="ij" to="ij" />
  </PartialWordsAlways>
<ReplaceList>

<ReplaceList>
  <PartialWordsAlways>
    <WordPartAlways from="ij" to="ij" />
  </PartialWordsAlways>
<ReplaceList>

[GrampaWildWilly]

This is a pretty wild guess from somebody who is far from an expert in these things. Your closing tag looks like this:

<ReplaceList>

I think it should look like this:

</ReplaceList>

It looks to me like you're missing the closing slash in the closing tag. Maybe. Like I said, I don't know much about these things so I could be totally off base.

[niksedk]

Please add some more details + attached subtitle.

[fraternl]

Even though the Dutch were given a special character ij, no-one uses it.
It's not on any keyboard, nor is there an uppercase one for it.

We all use the 2 letters i an j.

Some software chokes on this special character, so I don't want to use it in my subtitles and prefer to have them replaced by i and j

It seems you've already implemented some code to get rid of it, but it seems it doesn't work.

se.srt.txt

The bottom group (PartialWords) is just a copy/paste from your code.
If it should do what I think, it doesn't work.

I think it should convert any ij to ij if the word doesn't exist in the dictionary.
That one doesn't work either.

I have an srt attached with this content:

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000
Deze zijn heeft 3 letters.

2
00:00:03,032 --> 00:00:05,032
Deze zijn heeft 4 letters.

3
00:00:05,064 --> 00:00:07,064
Dit is een onbestaand woord: sijzpoor.

The word "sijzpoor" doesn't exist.
Here it is written with a one-letter ij

<ReplaceList>
  <PartialWordsAlways>
    <WordPartAlways from="ij" to="ij" />
  </PartialWordsAlways>

  <PartialWords>
    <!-- Will be used to check words not in dictionary -->
    <!-- If new word(s) exists in spelling dictionary, it is (they are) accepted -->
    <WordPart from="ij" to="ij" />
  </PartialWords>
</ReplaceList>

[fraternl]

This is a pretty wild guess from somebody who is far from an expert in these things. Your closing tag looks like this:

<ReplaceList>

I think it should look like this:

</ReplaceList>

It looks to me like you're missing the closing slash in the closing tag. Maybe. Like I said, I don't know much about these things so I could be totally off base.

You're right, but my file is much longer and has much more in it.

So when I copy/pasted the snippet from my file, I typed <ReplaceList> to complete it and forgot the slash.
In the actual file it was there.