345027 - em-dash not treated the same as -- when spell-checking

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Spun off from bug 237344:

------- Comment #10 From Smokey Ardisson (gone)  2006-07-07 23:50 PDT  [reply] -------

Brett, does your patch also fix issues with other "typographic" symbols, or
should I file another bug on that?  

E.g., using a real em-dash (U+2014) without spaces flags the entire
word-em-dash-word as one misspelled word where using the equivalent -- does
not.

Bob--the fastest man in the universe--still lost the race.  <--fine
Bob—the fastest man in the universe—still lost the race.  <-- flags

Both this and Greg's original issue are all the more glaring on Mac OS X, where
the system spellchecker correctly treats (U+2019) and (U+0027) as identical and
treats -- and (U+2014) as identical; it joins elements separated by the former
pair and splits elements separated by the latter when spell-checking. :(


------- Comment #11 From Brett Wilson (Google) 2006-07-17 15:27 PDT [reply] -------

This was fixed by bug 339478.

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The em-dash bit is apparently Camino-only; em-dash and -- are now treated identically in recent Firefox branch builds.  I'm doubly-puzzled since this obviously works correctly in regular Mac apps (and in Camino's Cocoa textfields)....

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is WFM for me on the branch now; can someone confirm?

Comment 2

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

WFM.