1521146 - The spellchecker sporadically doesn't catch doens't.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1418629

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect, P3)

Description

[wyattbest]

Attachment: Spellcheck inconsistently flagging doens't

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Typed "doens't" into both single-line and multi-line text inputs.

Also verified that the misspelled word is not in persdict.dat.

Actual results:

When the letter 't' is typed, the red underline disappears. Alternatively, sometimes it disappears when typing a space followed by more characters.

Sometimes the red underline reappears when the text field gains focus. Also, typing a period after doens't sometimes causes the red underline to remain.

Expected results:

The word doens't should continue to be underlined in red as an error even if further words are typed or the focus changes.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0
20190118094042

doens't followed by a space

• has a red underline if I enable "Check Spelling" in the Search Bugs field above
• has no red underline if I type it in this comment field

Comment 2

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

This may be fixed bug 1418629. Could you test this on the latest Nightly?

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Closing as duplicate but feel free to re-open or file a new bug in case. Thanks for your support!