This bug is happening to me too, and I can confirm that it's not happening in other applications that use spell-check such as Tomboy Notes or Firefox.
It would appear that, however Empathy interacts with the spell-checking library, it's not tokenizing the words it sends correctly. -- Spell check in Empathy mishandles contractions and punctuation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/536655 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs