350007 - Don't isnt suggested at the start of a line

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Aaron Lote]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2

Enter "dont" in the middle of a sentence and firefox recognizes its a spelling mistake and suggests "don't".

Dont at the start of a sentence, like this one, is recognized as something spelt with but there is no "don't" suggestion when you right click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter dont at the start of a sentence
2. Right click on the word
3. Note there is no "don't"

Actual Results:  
1. Enter dont at the start of a sentence
2. Right click on the word
3. Note there is no "don't"


Expected Results:  
"don't" would be a suggestion like it is when dont is in the middle of a sentence.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060823 BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006082304  (en-US dictionary)

To clarify the original report (because this seems to depend on capitalization rather than word position)

"dont" will have "don't" as possible replacement, regardless of where you put it in a sentence

"Dont" doesn't offer "Don't" anywhere.

"do'nt" & "Do'nt" have the correct replacement.

Comment 2

[Aaron Lote]

Why wouldn(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060823
> BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006082304  (en-US dictionary)
> 
> To clarify the original report (because this seems to depend on capitalization
> rather than word position)
> 
> "dont" will have "don't" as possible replacement, regardless of where you put
> it in a sentence
> 
> "Dont" doesn't offer "Don't" anywhere.
> 
> "do'nt" & "Do'nt" have the correct replacement.
> 

Why wouldn't dont with a capital suggest Don't. Still a bug right?

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Why wouldn't dont with a capital suggest Don't. Still a bug right?

Yes.

Comment 4

[Matt Caywood]

dont --> don't is fixed by Hunspell (Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3)

"Dont" not suggesting "Don't" in the first 5 is a bug, but I don't know if there's a natural way to fix it in Hunspell. The problem is, Don, Dot, and Dons are all valid words. "Don't" comes up as suggestion #9. 

I think this is a relatively severe dictionary bug, so unless someone objects I will hack around this by adding "Don't" to the en-US dictionary. The only downside is a little untidiness.

Comment 6

[Annie Sullivan]

Is bug 461898 (Teh -> The) fixed as well? A lot of Google Docs users complained about that specific case.

Comment 7

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Is bug 461898 (Teh -> The) fixed as well? A lot of Google Docs users complained
> about that specific case.

Yes, it is!  Hopefully we'll get that fix ported to branch as well, so that it would be included in the next release of 3.5 and 3.6.