(In reply to André Pirard from comment #79) > 1) is it because a page is displayed in French that a bug report requested > to be in English should be spell checked in French?
A page may state that some input fields are expecting French, some other fields on the same page/form are expecting English. This would especially be the case on pages that allow input of translations or text localized in multiple languages. Like say content-editor for some CMS. > 2) is text necessarily in a single language? Looking at the e-mails I most > often write, the answer is a definite NO. > > 3) isn't it much easier and sufficient that the user set once for all the > set of all the languages he can write? IMHO when user's global selection of language(s) for spell checking applies should get weighted against the kind of form the user is on. When individual input fields carry language tag spell checker should default to exactly that language. When there is just language set via HTTP header or document's lang tag on root node it could be auto-detected between user's known languages and page language. Though this should then be left to the user to decide. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303269 Title: Automatically select language for spell check based on user input To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/303269/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
