Open Bug 1550932 Opened 6 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Spell-Checker: "taekwondo"->"wonderland"

Categories

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect, P3)

66 Branch
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: benphawke, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Language: English (Australia)
"taekwondo", or Taekwondo in any text input box.

Actual results:

comes up as a spelling mistake. When checking for correction, suggests "wonderland"

Expected results:

It should have recognised "Taekwondo" as valid in the English dictionary

"Taekwondo" is Korean, but has valid meaning internationally. Similarly, "Karate" is Japanese, but has come to have valid meaning internationally.

Component: Untriaged → Spelling checker
Product: Firefox → Core

What made it stick out to me as a bug, is that the edit distance between "taekwondo" and "wonderland" is quite big.

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:smaug, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(bugs)

This is more an issue with hunspell dictionaries. LibreOffice, as an example, shows the same issue.

Flags: needinfo?(bugs)
Priority: -- → P3
Severity: normal → S3
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