856333 - Spell check flags partial words as incorrect

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[freakqnc]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.101 Safari/537.11

Steps to reproduce:

Writing a message in the compose window.


Actual results:

partial words become flagged as incorrectly spelled words, but usually when it happens it makes no sense as the word is spelled correctly and only the ending part of an entire word would be shown as flagged. (Happens on Mac OS X 10.6.8, but also on Windows 7)


Expected results:

The spell checker should have recognized the entire word not assume what flagged is a separate word as if there was a space in between them. For instance in the latest message I am composing the word exchange has "ge" flagged as incorrect spelling for no apparent reason. Deleting that "ge" and rewriting will continue triggering the spellchecker flagging, deleting and rewriting the word will magically make it go away... it should've never been flagged in the first place. This behavior appears to be completely random as it doesn't happen consistently on specific words (capita or not).
Prior report for this bug have been closed as solved, this bug keeps reappearing and many continue reporting the same issue release after release since at least version 14. Was great when one could trust the spellchecker and not continue to be distracted disruptively by it and having to triple check each email written. 

Hope this will help put some attention on this bug that truly needs to be solved, in the meantime I'll use other email clients (Apple Mail/Postbox). 

Thanks.

Comment 1

[mst]

The problem comes when you insert some characters in the middle of a word: it adds a <font> tag which is (rightly I thing) interpreted as a word delimiter.
The problem thus comes from the extra tag inserted.
I must admit that this is a major ennoyance.