Spellchecker: Multiple language design
Categories
(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement, P3)
Tracking
()
People
(Reporter: lizal, Assigned: dminor)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug, Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Keywords: parity-chrome)
Attachments
(3 files)
4.15 KB,
patch
|
Details | Diff | Splinter Review | |
21.14 KB,
image/png
|
Details | |
37.30 KB,
image/png
|
Details |
Comment hidden (obsolete) |
Comment hidden (obsolete) |
Comment 4•24 years ago
|
||
Comment 5•24 years ago
|
||
Updated•24 years ago
|
Comment 6•24 years ago
|
||
Updated•24 years ago
|
Comment 8•23 years ago
|
||
Comment 10•21 years ago
|
||
Updated•21 years ago
|
Comment 11•21 years ago
|
||
Comment 12•21 years ago
|
||
Comment 13•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 14•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 15•20 years ago
|
||
Updated•20 years ago
|
Comment 16•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 17•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 18•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 19•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 20•20 years ago
|
||
Comment 21•19 years ago
|
||
Comment hidden (obsolete) |
Comment 31•18 years ago
|
||
Comment 32•18 years ago
|
||
Comment 33•18 years ago
|
||
Comment 34•18 years ago
|
||
Comment 35•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 39•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 40•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 41•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 42•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 43•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 44•17 years ago
|
||
Comment 45•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 46•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 47•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 49•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 50•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 51•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 52•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 53•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 54•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 56•16 years ago
|
||
Comment 62•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 63•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 65•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 66•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 67•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 68•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 69•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 70•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 71•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 74•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 75•15 years ago
|
||
Comment 77•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 79•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 80•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 81•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 82•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 83•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 84•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 85•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 86•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 87•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 88•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 89•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 90•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 91•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 92•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 93•14 years ago
|
||
Comment 95•13 years ago
|
||
Comment 96•13 years ago
|
||
Comment 97•13 years ago
|
||
Comment 98•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 99•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 100•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 101•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 102•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 103•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 104•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 105•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 106•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 107•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 108•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 109•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 110•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 111•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 112•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 113•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 114•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 115•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 116•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 117•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 118•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 119•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 120•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 121•12 years ago
|
||
Comment 122•11 years ago
|
||
Comment 124•11 years ago
|
||
Comment 125•11 years ago
|
||
Comment 126•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 127•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 128•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 129•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 130•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 131•10 years ago
|
||
Comment 132•9 years ago
|
||
Comment 133•9 years ago
|
||
Comment 134•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 135•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 136•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 137•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 138•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 139•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 140•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 141•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 142•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 143•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 144•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 145•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 146•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 147•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 148•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 149•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 150•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 151•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 152•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 153•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 154•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 155•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 156•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 157•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 158•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 159•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 160•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 161•8 years ago
|
||
Comment 162•7 years ago
|
||
Comment 163•7 years ago
|
||
![]() |
||
Comment 164•7 years ago
|
||
![]() |
||
Updated•7 years ago
|
Comment 165•7 years ago
|
||
Comment 166•7 years ago
|
||
Comment 167•6 years ago
|
||
I think that suggestions from different languages should appear separated in the context menu. (see screen-shot of Chrome)
Comment 168•6 years ago
|
||
Priority P3? For non English natives this is probably the most annoying missing feature of Firefox.
Chrome can mix and match languages in the same sentence without having to install extra extensions or dictionaries.
Comment 169•6 years ago
|
||
Hello!
There is an extension that makes Firefox automatically recognize the language I am writing in: https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict
Would it be possible to include such a functionality inside Firefox? It would be already a big, big improvement.
Also, the dictionaries download page of Firefox is so confusing.
Unfortunately, Firefox provides a subpar experience for people who write in more than one language, which is quite a lot. This scenario is perfectly handled by Chrome and Safari, so I think it could be feasible for Firefox to improve it.
Comment 170•6 years ago
|
||
I have to agree with others here. It seems not really that interesting for Mozilla team (I reckon many native speakers), but for us, foreigners, who frequently type in multiple languages (at least two, but usually three or four), it is a big inconvenient to always needing to switch a language manually or in case we combine the languages (such as writing in one language with some captions/quotes in English) we have simply no choice to have it automatically changed as we write.
I know, probably no one from Mozilla likes a comparison with Google and Chromium, but after couple of years of using Chromium alongside FF, Chromium's automatic language switching for spell-checking has worked, honestly, flawlessly.
And what's more this is none of those advanced spell-checks which would check for a syntactic typos such as combining singular and plural "one languages" and others like that, this is simply a dictionary data matching, I think this should be implemented.
By the way, as Matt suggested,
https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict
works, however it is 50% there, it will switch a languages depending on what languages you start typing in, however after that it will not switch to other one automatically anymore. Still better than nothing, I guess...
Comment 171•6 years ago
|
||
I am still using chromium based browsers because ff doesn't want to fix it, wth
Thanks for the https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict lads
Comment 172•5 years ago
|
||
That is merely a patch, I hope, Mozilla team will not take it as this is fixed. This is very much not fixed. I am 100% sure this is TOP3 essential features for non-English speakers or even whoever who speaks multiple languages and wants to be sure the spelling is correct.
Comment 175•5 years ago
|
||
I don't know if this is the same but spell checking seems to be failing. I write an email in English and have the British English dictionary selected and all the words are underlined! Still maybe this is a FIrefox issue as all my words are being underlined here too! But that is whether I select British or American English. In Thunderbird if I select American all the red lines disappear.:(
Comment 176•5 years ago
|
||
@musiquegraeme: What you see is unrelated. Please file a new bug, with exact reproduction steps in a new profile.
Comment 177•5 years ago
|
||
(In reply to musiquegraeme from comment #175)
I don't know if this is the same but spell checking seems to be failing. I write an email in English and have the British English dictionary selected and all the words are underlined! Still maybe this is a FIrefox issue as all my words are being underlined here too! But that is whether I select British or American English. In Thunderbird if I select American all the red lines disappear.:(
I guess that this has been fixed by bug 1671764 if you use Firefox.
Comment hidden (metoo) |
Comment hidden (metoo) |
Assignee | ||
Comment 180•3 years ago
|
||
I'm working on some patches for Bug 1402822 to support multiple dictionaries. I'll take this bug too, because there may be further work required once those land.
Assignee | ||
Updated•3 years ago
|
Comment 183•2 years ago
|
||
Has this been considered recently at all? It is sad to see that this bug report almost older than me and would be able to drink in February.
I have to side with others, as I'm a non-native speaker as well, and I'm quite often typing in multiple languages. This would greatly improve usability...
Comment 184•2 years ago
|
||
I've been subscribed to this ticket for a while, and recently I have installed the latest Thunderbird and it seems to me that for both Firefox and Thunderbird - this is no longer an issue. I've re-read the description, and frankly I'm very confused - I don't understand how it maps to the concept of "multiple language spellchecker".
That being said - there is multi-language spell checking in Thunderbird (as well as in Firefox, as commented before me):
- I Started Thunderbird.
- Clicked "New Message".
- In the new message window, I clicked the arrow on the "Spelling" button and I see that "English (United States)" is checked.
- I click "Add Dictionary..." (the last option in the menu) and get taken to a web page with a list of many languages.
- I picked "Hebrew" and clicked "Download Dictionary".
- I was taken to the "Hebrew Dictionary" web page, where there is a large button "Add to Thunderbird". I clicked it, confirmed in a popup dialog and then I closed the dictionary tab.
- Back in the new message window, I open the "Spelling" menu again, and I can see that both "English (United States)" and "Hebrew" are checked.
- Typing both English and Hebrew in the new message, I can see incorrect English words are marked in red, as well as incorrect Hebrew words, while correct words are not marked.
- If I'm not interested in English spell checking, I can disable "English (United States)" from the "Spelling" menu, and now all English words are marked in red.
The only thing that may be missing, is that the list of active and inactive dictionaries is global, while the ticket description seems to suggest that having a per-account setting is preferable? Regardless, I don't think that is a good idea - the global active dictionaries list is simple to use and is good enough, and if you want per email to have a different list - you can change it in the editor for this one time.
Assignee | ||
Comment 185•2 years ago
|
||
I think Bug 1402822 covered most of this. It would also be nice to see Bug 1763123 fixed, at the moment if there's a lot of spelling suggestions from the first dictionary, you might not see many from the second dictionary.
Assignee | ||
Comment 186•2 years ago
|
||
I guess I'm now confident calling this fixed, I think we have our design, there's still things that could be improved.
Description
•