268836 - Spellcheck does "etc." incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Doctor Nemesis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Using Thunderbird 0.9 with the UK English dictionary.

When spellchecking a message which has (speech marks used for clarity, not part
of the composition) "etc." within it, it will flag up an error with "etc" part
and suggest that "etc." is the correct spelling. If you accept this, you now
have "etc..".

If you then use the spellchecker again, it will flag "etc" as misspelt again,
and add another full stop to make "etc...".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a componsition window with the "Write" toolbar button.
2.Type "etc." into the compose window (no speech marks) followed by a carridge
return (optional, works without the return).
3.Activate the spellchecker with the "Spell" toolbar button.

Actual Results:  
"etc." was listed as a "etc" being a misspelling of "etc.", in effect ignoring
that a "." was already there.


Expected Results:  
Reported no misspelt words.

Comment 1

[Doctor Nemesis]

Attachment: Screen shot of spellchecker error.

Here is a screen shot of the "etc." bug.

Comment 2

[u39044]

This would appear to be a dupe of bug 264393.

Comment 3

[u39044]

Actually, I think this one has a clearer description of the bug than in bug
264393.  I suggest marking that as a dupe of this, and changing OS here to
"All", since that one is on Linux (I see this on Linux, too.)

Comment 4

[Matthew Wilson]

Also bug 234322

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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