Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 31218
Spelling checker - minor annoyance
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
When a new word is encountered by the spelling checker, it of course displays the word in the appropriate box, and gives the person the options what to do with it. I’ve noticed that if the new word appears at the end of a sentence, it appears in the spelling box with a period after the word - even though if one adds the word it is registered without the period (which is as it should be). The appearance of the word with the period after it is distracting.
MRU->TL: though the full stop will not be replaced, I think we should somehow ged rid of this minor cinch.
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I replicated the bug with OOo 1.1.2 and Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack2. Here are the replication steps: 1.Open a new text document. 2.Type sentence “My name is Steve Zhang.â€. User can type any sentence as long as there is a new word undefined in the dictionary at the end of the sentence. 3.Spell check the sentence. <Tools -> Spellcheck -> check> “Zhang.â€the new word with a period appears in the spelling check box. I can not replicate the bug with other symbols include: ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = | \ : ; “ ' < , > / ? * It looks like it only appears when user ends the sentence with a period. I think the main course is that spelling checker doesn't consider other symbols as the ending symbol. Once the spelling checker encounters the last word in a sentence, it extracts the last word together with the ending period and displays it in the dialog box.