369815 - Spell Check single character

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Pete]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

Spell check appears to ignore single characters when doing its check.  In essence a letter like "w" or "k" will pass as being spelled correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the "Write" email button
2. In the body section of the email use single characters; instead of words.
3. Click on the "Spell Check" button and it will show no words have been mispelled.  In essence: b c d e f g 
Would show as a valid word(s) 
Actual Results:  
Spell check doesn't catch single letters as being mispelled.

Expected Results:  
Spell check should catch single letters as misspellings.  The following list should be caught as 24 misspelled words.

b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Single letters that should be NOT be caught as misspellings:
a i

Actually the letter "i" might be flagged because it is lower case.



Additional information:  I am kind of hungry right now.

Comment 1

[Pete]

Changed the "Version" number to indicate that the software is the 1.5 branch (1.5.0.9).  With respect to the comment:

"Actually the letter "i" might be flagged because it is lower case."  

The letter "a" could be upper or lower case depending on where it falls within the sentence.  Now the letter "i" should be upper case.  I am only mentioning this; for the "Expected Results" field. 

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

true also in TB version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Comment 3

[Matt Caywood]

Single lower case letters have lots of uses. Outlining, mathematical variables, etc. The policy in the US English dictionary seems to be to include them, and I wouldn't want to change that without a good reason.

Being able to identify and correctly capitalize 'a' and 'I' in a sentence would require a grammar checker, so marking dependent on that bug.

Comment 5

[Albert Hickson]

It's not every single letter that it ignores.  It recognises w, u, i, o and m as misspelled words.  Among capital letters it only recognises M and W as misspelled words

Comment 9

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

It seems that now all single character words are accepted. As of comment 3 I'd think this is the desired behavior here.