OTA 5 rev22: choices for french spell checking could be better
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
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-
affects: | language-pack-touch-fr (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu) |
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").