Bug 135331 - thunderbird: english spell checker tries to fix chinese characters
Summary: thunderbird: english spell checker tries to fix chinese characters
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Firefox (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2005-11-23 15:31 UTC by a b
Modified: 2007-11-02 17:19 UTC (History)
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screenshot firfoxspellchecker error (30.37 KB, image/gif)
2005-11-24 08:27 UTC, a b 		Details
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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.