668486 - Apostrophes in words inconsistently checked

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

I use a typographic apostrophe (’ which is alt-0146 on Windows) for contractions such as don’t and I’ll etc. The inline spell check correctly allows them.


Actual results:

Although the inline spell checker correctly allows these contractions, the spell check on sending an email identifies the part after the apostrophe as a spelling error.


Expected results:

The spell checker on sending an email should accept the contracted word as spelled correctly.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Does it happens when you use Thunderbird in safe-mode (see http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe-Mode) ?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I don’t know whether the behavior has changed since TB5, or whether I can’t find the right examples.

The following sentence:

I’m not sure whether I’ll manage, but if I don’t, I won’t but I shouldn’t care ...

The whole sentence passes the inline spell check, but the “shouldn’t” doesn’t pass the other spell check when I send the message.

This is true in or out of safe mode.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

This seems to be a Thunderbird bug, I don't know what it was moved to Core.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

see also bug 637949, bug 422982