229888 - Spell Checker does not catch contraction errors

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Anne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101

   Spell Checker does NOT recognize the missing apostrophe in most contractions
as an incorrect spelled word. ie: "cant" or "didnt", etc..
   Some contractions such as "havent" are recognized as misspelled but no
correct choice for replacement is available in dictionary

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.compose a message using contractions
2.do not use the apostrophe when spelling the contractions
3.run spell check

Actual Results:  
Spell check says everything spelled correctly... with the exception of a few
contractions such as "havent",  which it does catch,  but offers no replacement
word with the apostrophe

Expected Results:  
Detect contractions with a missing apostrophe and have the word in the
dictionary with an apostrophe as a replacement

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Well, spell checker is not only for english user. There is not that type of
contraction in french or spanish for example :)

Comment 2

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

according to http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cant, cant is a correct
word. It is just not wat you wanted to type, but spellcheck can't know that.
didnt is marked as incorrect.
To add didn't as suggestion for didnt, bug 227214 will help.

Comment 3

[Miles Libbey]

this appears to be a dup of 218463, but I don't have permissions to mark it as
such...

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

No, it isn't.
This is about not catching words as wring, the other is about not suggesting the
right word.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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