When entering message into messaging apps, last word keeps turning into gibberish

Bug #1516700 reported by AlainKnaff
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
messaging-app (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Whenever I type a space after the last word (such as would happen lots of time when entering an SMS message normally), the last word entered turns into gibberish.

Workaround: entering a lower case letter, and then moving back, so that the text entered is not end of line turns off this misfeature, but is cumbersome due to lack of cursor key, and proximity of camera icon near beginning of text field.

root@alains-pocket-penguin:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
root@alains-pocket-penguin:~# apt-cache policy messaging-app
messaging-app:
  Installed: 0.1+15.04.20151112-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.1+15.04.20151112-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.1+15.04.20151112-0ubuntu1 0
       1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/stable-snapshot/ubuntu/ vivid/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.1+15.04.20150413-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ vivid/universe armhf Packages

What I expect to happen: I should be able to enter text normally, without last word being transformed into gibberish.

What happens instead: Entering a space after last word garbles the word. WTF?

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, could you give some details
- an example of word you type and what it's changed to?
- do you use the autocorrection feature?
- what system language are you using and what language are you using for the message (to know if the dictionnary would match)

Changed in messaging-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc) wrote :

I was typing the message in Luxembourgish.

Was indeed auto-correction, took me a while to find where to switch this off in the global settings. Maybe it should be off by default, or maybe somehow made less intrusive?

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for messaging-app (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in messaging-app (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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