Spellcheck problems with capitalisation

[Alex Mauer]

Binary package hint: gedit

When gedit finds a misspelling, it doesn't do a good job of taking capitalisation into account.

For example, the misspelled word "Iittle" (note the upper-case "i") gives the suggestions "Tittle", "Little", "Vittles"...all of which have the first letter capitalised. However, it doesn't suggest at all "little" with a lower-case "L" as a possibility, but instead assumes that the original capitalisation is correct.

This problem happens in the opposite direction too: "WAlT" (note the lower-case "L") gives the suggestions "Walt", "Alt", "Waltz", "Wale","Welt","Wast", "Wait" ... "WAIT" in all-caps isn't even listed as a possibility. Again, it's assigning too much importance to the capitalisation of the first letter, and not enough to the rest.

Since gedit uses enchant for spell-checking, I'll also assign this bug to enchant. However, gedit could be doing a better job with sorting the suggestions ("wast" before "wait"??)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is that specific to gedit or happens in any gtk software?

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

Seems to be any GTK software. I’ve now also checked Evolution now, and it behaved the same.

[Pander (pander)]

This is probably related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/enchant/+bug/797686

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Confirmed in GEdit 3.3.3-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.