266136 - Spellchecker Contractions Not Suggested

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218463

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Joe Baker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: thunderbird 0.8

Checking the word "isnt" shows that the word is spelled incorrectly, but doesn't
suggest the word "isn't" which contains a contraction / apostrophe.  Checking
the word "isn't" finds that the word is spelled correctly.  I'd like to see the
correct word appear as a suggestion for "isnt".  I want to credit Kevin Morris
of NEL Frequency Controls, Inc. for bringing this to my attention.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "isnt"  (Without quotes) into a composition window
2. Run spell Check, observe that it identifies that "isnt" is spelled
incorrectly but doesn't suggest proper spelling of "isn't"
3. Correct "isnt"  to "isn't"
4. Run Spellcheck again.
5. Note that spelling of "isn't" is correct.
6. Try other contracted words with similiar results.

Actual Results:  
No suggestion is shown for "isnt".

Expected Results:  
Spellcheck should show "isn't" as a suggested spelling for "isnt".


I'd like to see a "suggest association" button in the spellchecker.
If someone typed a mis-spelled word and has gone to the trouble of finding the
correct spelling which Thunderbird couldn't offer, users should be able to
suggest the combination of the mis-spelled word and the correctly spelled word
to a centralized database where the combination could be included in future
releases of Thunderbird and other spellcheck programs.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218463 ***