269319 - Spell Check Not Highlighting Incorrectly Spelled Words

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[paul bateson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I use UK, Canada, and US English. Checked all three. I spelt many words grossly
incorrect as a test and nothing was picked up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check composed message with a bunch of incorrectly spelled words
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing highlighted

Expected Results:  
Should highlight incorrectly spelled words such as "colllllour" and
"sppelleerr." It passed them.

The spell check worked in the preview version but not in V1. The spell checker
has never highlighted a single incorrectly spelled word.

Comment 1

[paul bateson]

Good Day . . .

I have located the problem but not the cause. Thunderbird is inside my home/user
directory. I downloaded the three dictionaries and installed them from a
temporary directory. The files arrived in Thunderbird as read-only. The
downloaded .xpi files were not read-only.

I am the only user for the directory and I do not know how they could get their
attributes changed. The root had nothing to do with it.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.