English (UK) language not auto-correcting correct spellings

[Daniel-Myers]

Describe the bug
When selecting the English (UK) language, words are auto-corrected to the American spelling.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Select English (UK) as language
2. Type "colour" and space
3. It will auto-correct to "color"

Expected behavior
English (UK) spellings should not be auto-corrected to the American spelling and should remain as entered. Or if misspelled, should auto-correct to the English (UK) spelling.

Smartphones:

• Device: Xiaomi Mi Mix 3
• OS: Android 11
  and also,
• Device: Oneplus 3
• OS: Android 9

[jnnkB]

I've tested this and can confirm this.

[halfurness]

Also happening for me!

[jnnkB]

I looked in to the dictionary for britisch english and the reason simply seems to be that the frequency for color is set to a higher value:

word=color,f=138,flags=,originalFreq=138

word=colour,f=127,flags=,originalFreq=127

[Wils1907]

I'm having this problem too. E.g. UK English words with an "s" - e.g. maximise, organise - get changed to the US spelling with a "z".

[jnnkB]

I just checked the lineage os dictionary and the google dictionary and it seems both have the same problem as OpenBoard. (They're probably even using the same dictionary.) And since the source of FrequencyWords, OpenSubtitles doesn't distinguish between en_US and en_GB its not that easy to generate them myself.

[jnnkB]

After seeing this commit: wordmage@566ad21, I investigated this issue a bit further and it seems that the color/colour issue is a bit different to other auto-correction issues. In the color/colour case the dictionaries in /dictionaries have the same information. But this isn't the case for other words. For example regarding finalized/finalised:
en_US and en only contain finalized while en_GB only contains finalised. Nevertheless auto correction isn't working. This is the case because we only have one dictionary (en) in app/src/main/res/raw. So we could just merge them from that commit but I thought I'd probably be even better add all the new dictionaries in the lineage os commit here: LineageOS/android_vendor_lineage@7036106. So I created PR #528

[Mateus109]

Bug still outstanding. With language set to UK, autocorrect always suggests the US spelling. (e.g. authorized, color, labor.)

[jnnkB]

@Mateus109 With the current release or did you use the changes in #528?

[artfulrobot]

I'd be happy to test a beta package but I can't do building from source.

[Mateus109]

@jnnkB I was using the current F-Droid build but, having manually imported main_en_gb.dict and built OpenBoard from source, this has fixed the problem. I assume main_en_gb.dict will be included in future releases. Now I just need to get a Finnish dictionary added! :)

[jnnkB]

@Mateus109 That sounds good.
@artfulrobot You can download the build of the CI run here: https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/suites/5194723508/artifacts/176141947

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

I'd be happy to test a beta package

That sounds good.

Testing complete?