1289685 - Dutch spelling check not taking into account contractions of words belonging together

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Joris Willems]

Attachment: example.PNG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160623154057

Steps to reproduce:

1. install Dutch language and a Dutch dictionary in firefox
2. type Dutch text in input field
3. select "spelling controleren" and Nederlands (Dutch) from the languages



Actual results:

All combinations of words are marked incorrect.


Expected results:

The correct contractions should not be marked as incorrect.

In English words have to be separated by spaces even if you use them together as composite concept. For example the concept "spelling check" is a composition of spelling and check. In Dutch those words should be spelled without space: "tekstcontrole" is correct, "tekst controle" isn't. The Firefox spell check is only recognizing the separate words (tekst and controle) and is underlining the contraction (tekstcontrole) as incorrect when in fact only the latter is correct. This is not an exception, in fact most sentences have such words, so using the Firefox spelling check in Dutch always results in lots of red lines.

Comment 1

[FredMcD]

Other languages that do the same should also be checked.