624250 - Hunspell spell checker doesn't recognize compound words

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355178

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[António Manuel Dias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8

Firefox spell checker reports compound words (words made of two words separated by minus symbol) as spelling error, even though a command line hunspell session or OpenOffice.org document using the same dictionaries reports the same word as being correctly spelled.  I am using the pt_PT dictionaries (https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefox/addon/3155), which I am the responsible packager, and it happens every time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install pt_PT dictionary (https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefox/addon/3155)
2. Change language input to "Português / Portugal"
3. Open page with text box
4. Insert word "lavá-lo"
Actual Results:  
Word is reported as spelling error.

Expected Results:  
No report of spelling error.

1. Terminal hunspell session printout:

$ hunspell -i utf-8 -d pt_PT -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.2.8)
lavá-lo
*

2. OpenOffice.org extension with the same dictionaries version: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ptPTdict

3. Original dictionaries: http://natura.di.uminho.pt/download/sources/Dictionaries/hunspell/

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Dupe of bug 355178?

Comment 2

[António Manuel Dias]

Yes, it's a duplicate of that bug, I'm sorry for haven't noticed that.  I did try searching for it in bugzilla, but obviously didn't use the right /prayer/.

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I feel your pain. Searching in Bugzilla can be a real pain if you don't know exactly what terms to search on.