I've checked it again, and the behaviour is not really consistent. Sometimes it changes the language according to the lang attribute, and sometimes it does not. Is it possible that FF does not really select the language, but the dictionary that was last selected manually on the same page? And sometimes spellchecking is automatically turned off, and I have to turn it back on manually. This is very odd.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303269 Title: Automatically select language for spell check based on user input Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox As suggested in comments to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14655/ In an edit field, the language used for the spelling checker could be selected automatically based on identifying the language used for text written so far. Systems for doing this exist, and have tolerable accuracy for a single sentence of input. Granted, this should probably be routed upstream. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/303269/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
