Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 110442
Spellcheck Does Not Consider Dashes as Word Break
Last modified: 2010-03-28 11:35:39 UTC
Consider the following sentence: "He tried—he really did—but he just couldn't do it." Any other spellchecker will find no spelling errors with this sentence. Nor should it, for there are none. Unfortunately, this is not the case in OpenOffice.org, as the spellchecker doesn't seem to realize that the em-dash is a word break or whitespace character. Before anyone suggests that adding a space on either side would solve the issue, I would like to note that most style guides and typographers will tell you that em-dashes are closed, with no space on either side. As such, that would not be a viable solution here.
Created attachment 68590 [details] Screenshot of the error.
This is also apparently the case with en-dashes, and I could surmise some other characters. This is apparently a regression of issue 16020 (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16020).
That seems to be a duplicate of issue 107843 "Words containing em dash fail spell check"; see also issue 110007 "Update English dictionaries".
Dashes is a word break for English but not for many languages. Look at this issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64400 Use the latest English dictionaries and your problem should solved. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-en-fixed
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 107843 ***
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