French spell checking stopped working in Chrome

[abai-corp]

The French spell checking stopped working correctly in Chrome after the latest update (v 132). In Firefox, it works correctly.

You can reproduce the problem by installing nspell and the French dictionary (dictionary-fr) and using the correct method:

var spell = nspell(frenchDict)

spell.correct('mois') // => returns false, but should return true

For a large number of valid words, the "correct" method returns false.

[wooorm]

Wouldn't that be something to raise with chrome then?

[abai-corp]

We tried to replicate this issue in Chrome with standard JS objects, including objects with millions of entries, but failed. As such, we suspect the problem relates to the specifics of NSpell's implementation.