0.9.076-PUBLIC-ELECTRON#4002 Custom Language Filters not filtering correctly

reidstrash

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Apologies if this has already been reported. When making a custom replacement in the "language filters" section, all instances of a string of characters are replaced instead of whole words. For instance, a filter that changes "his" to "her" makes the sentence "His blaster was this big" into "Her blaster was ther big."

Additionally, multiple replacements can override each other. If I use the filters "his" to "her" along with "he" to "she," the output filters "his" into "sher." An example from an early encounter originally reads:

"The fuzzy behemoth scowls at the sight of you from behind a flashing red warning on his utility visor and stretches for the holstered firearm on his hip."

but with both filters mentioned above becomes:

"Tshe fuzzy beshemoth scowls at tshe sight of you from behind a flashing red warning on sher utility visor and stretcshes for tshe holstered firearm on sher hip. "
 

Jacques00

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I believe this is intentional--at least for the use of Custom Replacement words. As there is a note in the options stating:
Custom replacements are far less controlled - you can change out any word you want, but it’ll be global, everything will change regardless of context.

So using commonly appearing letter combinations like "his" and "her" will swap every instance those letter-combos appear in. So as an option, it's more of a use-at-your-own-risk kind of tool rather than an intelligent word replacement tool--as there would be a need to take grammar and word-tense into consideration in order to fulfill the use-case scenario you point out in your example.