237276 - Spell Checker not suggesting capitalized version of names (william -> William)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Jay Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040123
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.6  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040123

The spell checker seems to be unusually weak on computer and Internet related
words.  For example "Internet" (or "internet", though it should be capitalized)
are not known to it.

Also, common "brand name" words such as "eBay" should be included.

Is there a URL at which one can submit words for inclusion?

Jay Smith

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use common words like "Internet"

Actual Results:  
Spell checker did not know "Internet"

Expected Results:  
Spell checker should have recognized "Internet" as a correct and known word.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

"Internet" is known here, using Mozilla 1.6

Comment 2

[Jay Smith]

Frank Wein said...
> "Internet" is known here, using Mozilla 1.6

Frank,

I stand corrected.  "Internet" (cap I) is known here -- my error.

However... "internet" (lowecase i) is NOT known to the spell checker (and my
understanding is that the word should be capitalized -- for a couple more years
anyway. But much more importantly, the suggestion list does NOT include "Internet".

This seems to be pointing out a different problem.  If a word is supposed to be
capitalized, the spell checker is failing to include the capitalized version in
the suggestion list.

I just tried the same test for 

  william and William

william was not known and there were no suggestions.
William was known as a proper word.

I have changed the title of this bug.

Thanks.

Jay

Comment 3

[Ian Graham]

I believe this is a dup of bug 128122 ?? 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128122 ***

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

The two bugs appear pretty separate. This one is about capitalizing words that
are not capitalized, but should be (current behavior - spellchecker correcty
complains, but the replacement list does not include the correct
capitalization). Bug 128122, on the other hand is about complaining when words
are improperly capitalized - based on their position in a sentence (current
behavior - spellchecker fails to complain).

Comment 5

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

works for me.
william gives the suggestion William (granted, only as second option, but it is
there). And internet gives Internet as suggestion.

Comment 6

[Jay Smith]

Michiel van Leeuwen.... On what version/platform does it work for you?

Thanks. Jay

Comment 7

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

Recent linux cvs build.

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

version 1.0+ (20050808)

WFM.