234322 - Spell checker should handle punctuation/symbols appropriately (e.g. "etc", "etc.")

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

If I create a message which includes "etc.", the spell checker highlights "etc"
and suggests changing it to "etc.", even though the fullstop is already there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Write a message which includes "etc."
2.Run the spell checker
Actual Results:  
Spell checker flags "etc" as wrong and suggests "etc."

Expected Results:  
Spell checker should recognise the fullstop as part of the word and not claim a
spelling error

Comment 1

[Bishop Clark (LC957)]

should this bug be re-summed to just 'SpellCheck should recognize punctuation as
part of a word?"  I have the same problem with e.g. and http:// references;  I
know that this bug is really specific, but making it hinge on all punctuation
would allow the http:// spellcheck-avoidance enhancement (bug 172186) to be a
simple http://[^ ]+ entry in a dictionary on top of this bug.

Comment 2

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

I don't think it'd be a good idea to always include punctuation as part of a
word, because every sentence-ending word would then be flagged, unless there
were additional changes to account for this.

Changing the summary to "Spell checker should handle punctuation/symbols
appropriately" - even more general.

Comment 3

[Muthu Sankaralingam]

There is some more odd behavior. For example, 
"couldnt" will be flagged with no suggested spelling while
"could'nt" will have a suggested spelling of "couldn't". The spell check needed
the apostrophe in someplace to suggest a spelling using an apostrophe.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

version 1.0+ (20050803)

Both "etc." and "etc" work for me. This was probably fixed by the new inline
spellchecking bug.