Empathy's spell-checker fails to recognize words with inflectional morphemes

[Kevin Godby]

Binary package hint: empathy

Using the English dictionary, I enter the following words into the conversation window:

  sign signs. strong stronger strongest. sing sings singed singing.

the spell-checker indicates that all the words but 'sign', 'strong', and 'sing' are misspelled. Further testing seems to indicate that the spell-checker isn't allowing for the following inflectional morpheme suffixes:

 * plural (-s)
 * comparative (-er)
 * superlative (-est)
 * third-person singular present (-s)
 * past tense (-ed)
 * progressive (-ing)

This is with Empathy version 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

If you require further information, please let me know.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make ubuntu better. This is most likely a problem with aspell and I am moving this bug to aspell.

[Brian Nelson (pyro-debian)]

This is not an aspell bug that I've seen, at least in the Debian aspell packages.