229744 - Spell checker considers capitalized words incorrect.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229215

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David A. Cobb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20031223)

New with this build, a definite regression:
If I spell-checked this "Details" block, Thunderbird would consider "New" "If"
and probably "Details" to be misspelled.  It recommends the all-lowercase
replacement.   

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a message in gramatically correct English (capitals, punctuation, all
those nasty things many folks leave out of their e-mail.)
2. Send or spell-check.


Actual Results:  
All capitalized letters, e.g. the beginning of each sentence, are flagged as
incorrect.

Expected Results:  
Words with initial caps should not be considered incorrect if the normalized
(l.c.) word is in the dictionary.  Capitals in other positions, or multiple caps
in a word, should maybe be flagged - but this should be optional.

Comment 1

[Calum Mackay]

dup of bug 229215.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229215 ***