Sounds like something that could be done as a junior-job. The code lives in
koffice/plugins/textediting/autocorrection/

Question:  Is there a better way to go about letting people know I'm tackling
this bug than just posting to the bug tracker?

Anyway, advanced autocorrection seems to be the culprit here.  Basically
anything that's corrected by it gets converted to lower case.  Even when the
replacement word starts with a capital.  For example "Enland" would get
replaced by "england" and not "England", "Brittish" by "british", and so on.

Something like "Youre" however will get turned into "You're" if the "Convert
first letter of a sentence automatically to uppercase" option is on.  But I
think advanced autocorrection shouldn't need to rely on that when words are
already capitalized, so that's how I'm going to proceed.  I should have a patch
shortly.

Created an attachment (id=41824) [details]
Fix advance autocorrection

Patch to make sure that things fixed by advanced autocorrection remained
capitalized if they're originally capitalized.

Things are perhaps still get screwed up when words like "ENLAND" are typed. 
It's unclear to me whether or not that should result in "England", or result in
"ENGLAND".

And perhaps words that end with a punctuation mark aren't behaving right.  For
sure "1/2." doesn't behave as advertised.  I'll investigate further.

advancedAutocorrect() doesn't take punctuation into account.

SVN commit 1108260 by zander:

Fixes: autocorrection doesn't take capital letters into account

BUG:229328

This patch detects when the user typed a word that had at least
one uppercase character and follows that in the replacement.
Future enhancement might be to look at more characters, but for now
I think this is already a huge advancement.

Patch from Glen Kaukola, thank you! :-)

 M  +7 -0      Autocorrect.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1108260

Created an attachment (id=42346) [details]
advancedAutocorrect() punctuation handling

Patch for the handling of punctuation in advancedAutocorrect().

SVN commit 1108815 by zander:

Fix autocorrect punctuation handling

BUG:229328

Patch from Glen Kaukola, thanks a lot! :)

 M  +23 -6     Autocorrect.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1108815