Spell check in Empathy mishandles contractions and punctuation

[Iain Farrell]

Binary package hint: empathy

When I type in Empathy and use phrases like I'm and We'll the letters after the apostrophe are marked as incorrect spelling. See attached image.

[Jeff Campbell (jeff-soupbowl)]

This also happens with (

Example: (Hello World) would show (Hello as a spelling error

[Rob Speer (rspeer)]

This bug is happening to me too, and I can confirm that it's not happening in other applications that use spell-check such as Tomboy Notes or Firefox.

It would appear that, however Empathy interacts with the spell-checking library, it's not tokenizing the words it sends correctly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is the issue specific to empathy or do you get it in ie gedit too? it seems a known issue reported for years

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems similar to bug #36227

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure that firefox uses the same spellchecker than GNOME

[Jeff Campbell (jeff-soupbowl)]

I was able to get a similar spelling check issue in gedit (when turning on autocheck spelling and typing "wouldn't"). Empathy has this bug, but is ALSO would show "(Hello)" as a spelling error also (where gedit would not show this as an error).

Firefox does NOT use the same spell checker and does not share the same bug.

[Rob Speer (rspeer)]

It's not exactly the same in gedit. gedit doesn't mark "I'm" as a spelling error, for example.

[Rob Speer (rspeer)]

But it does seem like the same general bug. Do empathy and gedit use different dictionaries?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Rob, empathy uses enchant so you should try the same text in tomboy as it uses it too, I tried and I can reproduce this in empathy but works fine in tomboy so this is indeed an empathy bug and btw bug 545424 will be marked a duplicate of this bug because seems like empathy have problems with spell checking so once this bug is fixed that will also be fixed automagically (talked upstream).

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

As per upstream change, marking as fix committed

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 now. Thanks for reporting.

[firefeather (firefeather)]

Would this be a candidate for testing in Lucid-proposed?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I just tried and the upstream patch does not apply to the stable series so I guess no.