276748 - Spell check: Lower case of first letter should be ignored following hyphen

Status: NEW

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Johannes Widmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Version 1.0 (20041206)

In German, nouns must begin with a capital letter. But there is one case in
which they do not: Following a hyphen without a space between the hyphen and the
noun.
So, if the spell checker finds a word beginning with a non-capital letter but in
the dictionary there is a capital letter, it should ignore this issue if the
directly previous character is a hyphen.

(For Germans: Ich beziehe mich hier auf Ausdrücke wie "Papierformat und
-ausrichtung", wo "ausrichtung" klein geschrieben wird, obwohl es im Wörterbuch
großgeschrieben steht.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose eMail
2. Type the phrase "Papierformat und -ausrichtung"
3. Start German spell check

Actual Results:  
Spell check finds the "miss typed" word "ausrichtung" and proposes "Ausrichtung"
instead.

Expected Results:  
Spell check should allow ausrichtung because the directly previous character is
a hyphen "-".

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

confirmed in Thunderbird 1.5 beta 1 (20050920)

I didn't see the behavior in English or Dutch (they ignore the hyphen), but I
saw it in German.

Comment 3

[Matt Caywood]

This looks like a bug with the tokenization of hyphens. 

Depends on bug 355178 (may be a duplicate).