Chrome browser spell check inconsistent on Mac OSX El Capitan
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yyefet@chromium.org,
Jul 12 2016
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Issue descriptionVersion: 51.0.2704.103 OS: Mac OSX El Capitan Enterprise customer is reporting that spell check in gmail on Chrome Browser (Mac OSX El Capitan) is inconsistent (e.g: does not mark misspelled words). **Chrome Browser on Windows marks the same words as misspelled.** What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) On Mac OSX El Capitan, compose a gmail message in chrome browser (2) Enter misspelled text such as "helloo tthis iii aa ttest" What is the expected output? Words are marked misspelled. What do you see instead? Only a few of the words are marked as misspelled. Tests performed: - Disabled Chrome Browser Spell Check web service: results slightly better. - Set Gmail compose window > Spell check > recheck/language to English (US): results slightly better. Screenshots: (PII protected) https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0B6fESMmJITTNNFZ0Y1FBQTA1RUU&usp=sharing
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Jul 14 2016
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Jul 22 2016
[mac triage] Probably something for groby@ still. Perhaps related: Issue 355804 But I think the expected behaviour can be obtained by right-clicking any red-underlined word and unchecking "Ask Google For Suggestions". For me, with that checked, a lot of nonsense words are not marked as spelling errors (I've been assuming this is because "Google" thinks they are intentional nonsense rather than actual typos). But maybe this is just a bug and "Ask Google for Suggestions" is broken.
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Aug 19 2016
groby: Do we just use the system dictionary for spell check? If so, and this is intentional, then this seems like a WontFix. (And I imagine Safari would have the same problems). If not, then this would seem like a non-trivial behavior difference between Mac and Windows, and hence a serious bug.
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Aug 20 2016
We use the system spellchecker, unless "Ask Google for Suggestions" is on. GMail uses... none of the system services. I'm not sure what exactly their checker uses. "Ask Google" does not flag nonsense words as misspelling. Here's the list of possible combinations AskGoogle flags | System checker flags | Visual ----------------+----------------------+---------------- F | F | no underline T | F | grey underline F | T | no underline T | T | red underline Essentially, this bug is running into the third case. I'm currently not recalling why we chose that behavior - maybe odean@ still does?
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Apr 27 2017
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Aug 18 2017
[Assigning to @odean for more info]
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Aug 1
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Dec 14
Hello! This bug is receiving this notice because there has been no acknowledgment of its existence in quite a bit of time - If you are currently working on this bug, please provide an update. - If you are currently affected by this bug, please update with your current symptoms and relevant logs. If there has been no updates provided by EOD Wednesday, 12/19/18 (5pm EST), this bug will be archived and can be re-opened at any time deemed necessary. Thank you!
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Dec 20
Due to lack of action this bug has been Archived. If work is still being done on this issue or you are still experiencing this issue please feel free to re-open with the appropriate information. |
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Comment 1 by shrike@chromium.org
, Jul 14 2016