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Status: WontFix
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Closed: May 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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"woman" sometimes identified as misspelled

Reported by khym.cha...@gmail.com, May 28 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Turn on spellchecking for text fields
3. Enter "woman ( " into the search text field

What is the expected behavior?
"woman" isn't marked as mispelled

What went wrong?
"woman" is marked as mispelled

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.102  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Fedora 23
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

* The bug doesn't show if there's no space after the paren.
* The bug doesn't show if there any letters before "woman".
* The bug *does* show if there's only whitespace in front of "woman".
* The problem doesn't seem to affect text fields on other sites.
 
Components: -UI UI>Browser>Spellcheck

Comment 2 by groby@chromium.org, May 28 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
google.com actually sets its input element as spellcheck='false' - this underline is put there by google.com itself. (If you look closely, you see the red underlines there are much more wavy than the ones Chrome usually produces)


Nothing we can do on Chrome's side to fix it, sorry :(

Components: -UI>Browser>Spellcheck UI>Browser>Language>Spellcheck

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