[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143490] New: COVID-19 & Covid-19 fail spell-check

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143490

            Bug ID: 143490
           Summary: COVID-19 & Covid-19 fail spell-check
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.1.4.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: Nick_Levinson at yahoo.com

Description:
Adding Covid-19 or COVID-19 to the standard user dictionary makes no
difference; they still get marked as partial misspellings.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In a Writer document, write the following:
Covid-19
COVID-19

2. You may need to press the Enter key for the spell-check to work on the last
entry.

3. Try to make what you wrote pass spell-checking.

Actual Results:
You can't. Writer treats Covid or COVID as its own string. Even if you add
Covid-19 and COVID-19 to the user dictionary manually (Spelling dialog >
Options > standard > Edit), Writer still considers Covid inside Covid-19 and
COVID inside COVID-19 to be misspelled. Adding Covid and COVID to the
dictionary is not a fix because then Writer wouldn't catch Covid-18 and COVID-9
as errors.

Expected Results:
Have Covid-19 and COVID-19 pass the spell-check.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
My guess is that this is about an alpha string and a number string in either
order and hyphen-separated. If that's the problem, the summary of this report
probably should be edited.

Probably not a regression. I think I've had this problem since I first wrote
about the virus. I don't remember pre-viral strings with the same
characteristics.

Platform: Fedora 34 Linux, kept evergreen. A clean F34 installation was
performed after the problem began, so Safe Mode need not be tested.

I don't think I have OpenGL.

>From About LO:

Version: 7.1.4.2
Build ID: 10(Build:2)
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

That it's not as regression is supported by the same problem being found in an
earlier LO Writer. From the earlier LO's About, on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Linux,
kept evergreen:
Version: 6.4.7.2
Build ID: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

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