Issue 73316 - Spell check does not correctly handle hyphenated words (Australian English + other English languages)
Summary: Spell check does not correctly handle hyphenated words (Australian English + ...
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 64400
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 3 votes (vote)
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Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2007-01-10 01:21 UTC by kelvine
Modified: 2007-01-15 00:14 UTC (History)
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Description kelvine 2007-01-10 01:21:36 UTC 
Hi,
 
I maintain the Australian English dictionary files.

The Australian English dictionary file contains approximately 4,000 hyphenated 
word entries.

Recently as a result of this work I retested how OpenOffice.org handles 
hyphenated words and found it doesn't work as I expected.

For example, the term "bric-a-brac" is in the Australian English dictionary for 
OpenOffice.org, is in the Macquarie dictionary, and recognised correctly by 
Microsoft Word. It is not handled correctly in OpenOffice.org.
 
OpenOffice.org appears to check each word as being correct and ignores the 
hyphens.

In this case the words "bric" and "brac" are not valid Australian English words 
(as far as I know) and should not be added to the Australian English dictionary.

I would like to raise a request for hyphenated words to be handled correctly 
for Australian English.

Thanks

Kelvin Eldridge
Comment 1 andypep 2007-01-10 08:37:11 UTC 
The UK spell check suffers the same problem. For example, the word 
higgledy-piggledy is valid in UK English, but neither higgledy nor piggledy 
are. But the OOo spell check allows all three rather than only the combined 
hyphenated form.

It looks like French has a problem with bric-à-brac, too.

Andy Pepperdine.
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2007-01-10 08:47:47 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 3 lohmaier 2007-01-15 00:14:30 UTC 
duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 64400 ***
Comment 4 lohmaier 2007-01-15 00:14:47 UTC 
closing duplicate.