OTA 5 rev22: choices for french spell checking could be better

Bug #1482896 reported by Nicolas
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Bug Description

Hi,

Choices for french (and certainly other languages too) spell-checking could be improved.

Accents are harder (and slower) to tap than usual letters. For example, when a 'é' letter is wanted, I have to tap 'e' on the virtual keyboard, wait for the choices of accentuated letters éèê... to appear and swift to choose 'é'.

When I want the word "départ", I would like to type "depart", and the spell-checker to choose "départ" as the best choice. Instead, the spell-checker propose "repart" as first choice for "depart", which, in my opinion, is not the best. In the algorithm for spell-checking, the substitution of a letter without accent by the same letter with an accent should be counted with a weight less than substitution of a letter by a totally different letter.

Nicolas (a french guy)

PS: I have posted this report to language-pack-touch-fr but I do not know if there is a more appropriate place.

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Nicolas (coinb) wrote :

Another anomaly:

Typing "france", the dictionary proposes several choices. Among them, two are in bold face: "france" and "franque". Adding a space to "france", the dictionary automatically replace by "franque", which obviously is not the best choice (which is "france").

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marius (mariuspo) wrote :

Still for the French language, when activating automated punctuation, the spaces right before the signs ! ? : ; are automatically deleted. They should be kept in French, like in these examples:

How are you? = Ca va ?
Great! = Super !
This one: = Celui-ci :
first; second = first ; second

Explanation here: http://french.stackexchange.com/questions/46/pourquoi-place-t-on-une-espace-avant-les-ponctuations-fortes-why-is-there-a

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in language-pack-touch-fr (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Cédric Bellegarde (gnumdk) wrote :

Any news on this? Ubuntu keyboard in French really suck...

One more on this bug...
When I type "a", spell checking should propose "à"
When I type "e", spell checking should propose "éèê"

Android and IOS work like this.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
affects: language-pack-touch-fr (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu)
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Morgan (z-admin-angels-gmail-com) wrote :

You should use another text for predicting text !

Because this one : https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-keyboard/trunk/view/head:/plugins/fr/src/les_trois_mousquetaires.txt
Don't follow the french syntax, but the english one !

Also, this text use a lot of old french (not used anymore).

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Morgan (z-admin-angels-gmail-com) wrote :

PS : You really should use dictionnary from : http://dicollecte.org/download.php?prj=fr

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