1215783 - Unintended change of Spellcheck-dictionary from "fr-classic" to "fr-reform" or arbitrary other changes

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Raymond]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
Build ID: 20150923195647

Steps to reproduce:

Put "fr-classic" into : "Edit" - "Preference" - "Appearance" - "Spelling" - "General" - "Language"


Actual results:

SM changed my parameter to "fr-reform"


Expected results:

"fr-classic" should be my default selection maintained forever

Comment 1

[Raymond]

I use SM  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
on a 32 bits pc running windows7 Pro SP1.

The installed SM is: SeaMonkey Setup 2.38.exe
Who is obtained this way:
go to http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
If you want the current stable release i.e. 2.38 then 
use it:
- SeaMonkey 2.38
 - Official Build
  - click on "Download(windows) of English (US)
SeaMonkey Setup 2.38.exe (33.8MB - 34,633KB) donwloaded to C:\ADDON\ADDED\Mozilla-Suite\SeaMonkey\2.38\
d509925f03832eebe523d3458a6e68e2  win32/en-US/SeaMonkey Setup 2.38.exe 

Who contains no dictionary installed instead of the bundled one: English/United States


Then I do:
from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/browse/type:3
gives you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/language-tools/
click on: French 	Français 	Install Dictionary (1.5 MB)
brings you to: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/dictionnaires-fran%C3%A7ais/
where we see: French spelling dictionaries 5.4.1 no restart
Right-click on "Add to SeaMonkey"
 and choice: "Save Link Target As"
will download: dictionnaires_francais-5.4.1-sm+tb+fx.xpi

So far, so Good.
All is installed and I use SM and i do:

"Edit" - "Preference" - "Appearance" - "Spelling" - "General" - "Language"
I am presented by 5 choices which are:
- English/United states
- fr-classic
- fr-classic-reform
- fr-modern
- fr-reform 

I put there "fr-classic"(the second choice) .... 

Note: I never choose a dictionary for a text field on a website. 
But SM, for the next mail, SM have changed my choice to "fr-reform"(the last choice)

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I observed something similar, I do no know whether related:
My SeaMonkey 2.38  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0)  Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build 20150923195647  (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit again and again switched dict. to "fr-???" from the top of the list in menu 'Edit → Preferences → Appearences → Spelling), although I again and again selected en-us or German there or in composer panes. But as soon as I tried to do more research and to make the the problem reproducible, the problem disappeared.

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Problem back again! Sometimes my selection persists for a while, even few days, but sometimes SM does the switch back to fr-reform within few moments.

And I still don't know what exactly does the RESET to the (why ever) "default"- dictionary. I more or less _never_ use a french spell check, that one only is installed for test affairs.

NEW, but still more research required!

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

@Reporter:
What is the difference to "Bug 1210172 - SM cannot maintain the previous spelling choice"

Comment 5

[Raymond]

The  bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210172 is different.
It was done because, before SM 2.38, when using the Spelling button to change the dictionary, let's say between English or one of the French one .... this last choice was maintained.
I have been told that this is not the case now ... The maintain choice is done at the default we put at: 
"Edit" - "Preference" - "Appearance" - "Spelling" - "General" - "Language"
And, this is working ... If I put English there, This choice is maintained(SM never reset it to one of the french dict). If I put one of the French dictionary, This choice is maintained(SM never reset it to  the english dict).
This bug speak only about the fact that inside the french possibilities ... The choice "fr-classic" is reset by SM to "fr-reform". Changing my default choice between the french dictionary. SM never reset to English when I have choiced "fr-classic" - and SM never reset to "fr-reform" when I have choiced "English/Unites States".

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Raymond from comment #5)
> This choice is maintained(SM never reset it to one of the French dict)

Not for me. But the problem is that I do a lot of tests with my SM, switch between versions and profiles ... . So I can't know what the reason for my problems.

And currently I can't confirm your problem from this report here.

Comment 7

[Raymond]

[WORK-AROUND]
I just found a viable work-around for my problem - so a don't care about a solution near 2075 :-)
You just have to go into the directory:
C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<profile-id>.default\extensions\[e-mail]\dictionaries\
and swap the files:
- fr-classic.aff - fr-reform.aff
and 
- fr-classic.dic - fr-reform.dic

Comment 8

[Raymond]

Why cannot change the status of this problem from UNCONFIRMED to CONFIRMED due to the fact that i can reproduce it "at will" ?

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Raymond from comment #8)
CONFIRMED means (more or less) that we know that it is a SM bug what can be reproduced by a developer so that he can find out the reasons and fix the problem. 
Currently we only know that you see a problem using SM on your computer, and nobody knows how to reproduce your problem.

Can you please explain your workaround so that I can test with "Bug 1216876 - Unintended change of Default Spelling-dictionary from "any other" to "fr-reform""? I haven't a clue what "swap" might mean here.

Comment 10

[Raymond]

Swapping mean: (example if the file 1 have the name "A" and the file 2 have the name "B"
1. change the name "A" of the file 1 from "A" to "TEMP".
2. change the name "B" of the file 2 from "B" to "A".
3. change the name "TEMP" of the file 1 from "TEMP" to "B". 

Before change the file 1 have the name "A" and the file 2 have the name "B"
After change the file 1 have the name "B" and the file 2 have the name "A"
This is an exchange of the content between two files.
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap_%28computer_science%29

In my case SM use before and after the name "fr-reform", but before it has the fr-reform content and now this is the fr-classic content.

Comment 11

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Thx:
And what does the workaround do? Perfect solution or simply you have the required "fr-classic" although preferences show "fr-reform"?

Comment 12

[Raymond]

Simply SM shows me "fr-reform" but in fact it uses the "fr-classic" dictionary.
For me, it's not a perfect solution, but a perfect workaround.

Comment 13

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This was fixed in Gecko43 in bug 717433 (same problem but for English).

For more details see meta-bug 1073827 comment #33.

Comment 14

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Currently I see a powerful random generator - any change of any spell check dictionary to any other one at any time might happen or not. 
So the original problem only might be a special case?