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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mcatanzaro@igalia.com" title="Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Michael Catanzaro</span></a>
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href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149056#c11">Comment # 11</a>
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href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149056">bug 149056</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mcatanzaro@igalia.com" title="Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Michael Catanzaro</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=149056#c10">comment #10</a>)
<span class="quote">> wordBreakIterator seems to be pretty smart actually: not breaking on every
> punctuation mark seems to make sense in some languages as the punctuation
> marks can be considered part of the word itself (kind of as a word
> construction mechanism).</span >
It doesn't seem smart to me, if it's not actually able to detect word breaks properly. A punctuation mark might occur inside a word in some languages, but if it's followed by a space, then surely it is always a word break character? I haven't looked at this closely, but I suspect we are somehow misusing the ICU API, as I'd like to think it's smart enough to handle this. At least, detecting word breaks properly is a standard feature of GtkTextIter, so I would expect ICU to be able to do it as well. If we can't figure it out, might need to look at what GtkTextIter is doing.
<span class="quote">> That being said, this creates bugs when checking the spelling of sentences
> with a poor syntax (like ones with no space after a period or a colon), but
> this is a spell checking bug, not a word breaking one.</span >
In that case, I would expect the spellchecker to flag the word foo.bar as misspelled.</pre>
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