Bug 135331

Summary:	thunderbird: english spell checker tries to fix chinese characters
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	a b <wharms>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	screenshot firfoxspellchecker error

Description a b 2005-11-23 15:31:46 UTC

I was answering a letter by some chinese guy. interestingly the 
english spellcheck tried to fix the chinese characters. obvious it does not make sense.

(i have a screen shot to ilustrate the problem but where can i upload now ?)

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-23 18:29:22 UTC

Please attach the screenshot here to this bug (the feature is almost at the bottom of this page).
This report is for the experimental Thunderbird on the FTP server?

Comment 2 a b 2005-11-24 08:27:29 UTC

Created attachment 58550 [details]
screenshot  firfoxspellchecker error 

Please note that english dictionary trys to fix
a chinese character.

Comment 3 a b 2005-11-24 08:28:55 UTC

The problem occurs on the latest version with SuSE 10.0 stable.
about: 1.0.6 20050715

Comment 4 Robert O'Callahan 2005-11-28 23:03:53 UTC

This should be filed and fixed upstream.

Comment 5 Mark Gordon 2007-11-02 17:19:32 UTC

I tried this (spell checking while replying to Chinese email) with MozillaThunderbird 2.0.0.6, and it's working now.  Resolving FIXED.