Bug 116200 - Empty entry (space) is shown as suggested correction in context menu for double space
Summary: Empty entry (space) is shown as suggested correction in context menu for doub...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linguistic (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 147651 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Context-Menu Spell-Checking
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Reported: 2018-03-05 11:48 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2025-09-28 01:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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2018-03-05 11:48 UTC, Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2018-03-05 11:48:43 UTC
Created attachment 140349 [details]
screenshot

steps:
1. open writer
2. type 'LibreOffice is the  best.'
3. notice spellcheck blue line under the double space before 'best'
4. right-click on it
5. notice 2nd context menu item is blank as it likely is ' '

Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: c24c32bf71b8e64bd0d36e511f554e1f6c015842
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2018-03-05 16:48:15 UTC
I can't reproduce it in

Versió: 6.0.2.1
ID de la construcció: 1:6.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1~lo1
Fils de CPU: 4; SO: Linux 4.13; Renderitzador de la IU: per defecte; VCL: gtk3; 
Configuració local: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

You version is from November, 2017. Does it happen with a release version ?
Comment 2 Aron Budea 2018-03-06 03:06:54 UTC
Seems so indeed. Confirmed using LO 6.0.2.1 & 4.0.0.3 / Windows 7.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-03-07 03:43:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-03-07 04:15:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-03-08 03:26:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2025-03-08 03:12:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 BogdanB 2025-08-26 05:29:51 UTC
When you have double spaces, that empty space from context menu (when clicked) will replace 2 spaces with 1 space. It is a very useful feature.
Comment 8 Justin L 2025-09-27 23:57:53 UTC
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) from comment #0)
> 5. notice 2nd context menu item is blank as it likely is ' '

Missing here is what that is bad, or what should be expected as a visualization.

As comment 7 notes, we certainly want to have it here. I suppose the program could visualize it with '<single space>' but that then becomes a translation nightmare and perhaps not clear to certain groups of users anyway. MOST users should be able to figure out that it is a single-space replacement since that is how all other spell-check suggestions work.

My take: keep it simple, and leave everything as it is. NOTABUG.

And given that there has been no activity on this for 7 years, lets just mark it as that...
Comment 9 Justin L 2025-09-28 01:08:05 UTC
*** Bug 147651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***