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.
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.