489515 - Spell checker fails to identify hyphenated word

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355178

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[mrcrowl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When I enter the word "co-ordinating" into a text box, Firefox underlines "ordinating" as being misspelled.  Right-clicking on "ordinating" shows the suggestion "co-ordinating" (which means the word is in the dictionary), but clicking this option results in "co-co-ordinating".  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type co-ordinating into a textbox (ensuring that Check Spelling is enabled).
2. Right click on "ordinating"
3. Select the option "co-ordinating"
Actual Results:  
The word co-ordinating is replaced with co-co-ordinating.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have identified co-ordinating as a valid word in the first place, because it appears to be in the built-in dictionary that comes with the product.

I'm unsure if this issue occurs for other hyphenated words.

Comment 2

[skierpage]

> When I enter the word "co-ordinating" into a text box, Firefox underlines
> "ordinating" as being misspelled.  Right-clicking on "ordinating" shows the
> suggestion "co-ordinating" (which means the word is in the dictionary), but
> clicking this option results in "co-co-ordinating".  

mrcrowl,
For me, Firefox 3.6 pre-alpha (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090422 Minefield/3.6a1pre ID:20090422044118) and Thunderbird 3.0b2 both do NOT offer a hyphenated word as a suggestion, only "coordinating".  There are no hyphenated words in my en-US.dic at all.  I'm not sure how you're getting the precise behavior you report.

Comment 3

[mrcrowl]

Sorry, I can't explain the inner workings of the spell checker either, but I can confirm that the hyphenated version (co-ordinating) does not appear in my en-US.dic either. Neither is it in the persdict.dat file (for my profile).  

Please see the attached screenshot for example of this behaviour on my computer.

As above, my version is Firefox 3.0.9 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729))

Comment 4

[mrcrowl]

Attachment: Spell checker suggestions for "ordinating"

This is an example of the spell-checker's suggestions for the hypenated word.

Comment 5

[mrcrowl]

To skierpage: on further investigation, I found that I am actually using the Australian dictionary for the spell-checker, hence the difference in our list of suggestions.  

Found in: %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Profile#}\extensions\[e-mail]\dictionaries\