Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 111289
Spell checker should ignore plain text URLs
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
At the moment internet addresses are either automatically converted into hyperlinks, which aren't spell checked, or left as they were input, dependent on the autocorrect options, but then they _are_ spellchecked, and so far I haven't found a way to turn that off automatically. Of course, urls are misspelt in all languages. At the moment the only workaround that I know of is to define a character style with language set to None and apply that to all internet addresses, but binding that style to a key is, as I found as a volunteer at the OOo community forums, a tough hurdle for many people. Although is is really a feature or enhancement request, I marked this as a defect because the program can already detect an internet address and doesn't spell check it on conversion to a hyperlink, so why not turn off spell check if the user doesn't want it converted to a hyperlink? - for instance in text that will be printed, so that a hyperlink wouldn't be very useful anyway).
I cannot reproduce what you describe. When typing http://www.thisisatest.com and after AutoCorrection to hyperlink, the domain name is not spell-checked. Pressing F7 doesn't bring any error which should be the case if had typed "thisisatest" Plus, what you mean is not "hyperlink" but "URL".
Was the opening sentence too long for you? Quote from me: "... or left as they were input, (...) but then they _are_ spellchecked", meaning that if you turn off conversion to hyperlink or URL or whatever you want to call it, the text _is_ spell checked. Please check that again.
@TL: one for you? "http://thisisatest.com" formatted as hyperlink won't be spell-checked -> Ok "http://thisisatest.com" as plain text will be spell-checked -> bug. The spell checker should ignore plain text URLs like it does for URL formatted as hyperlinks. No regression.
*** Issue 114178 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***