Touch-to-correct inserts instead of replacing

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(reported in a Market review)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Turn on "Touch to correct" in options
2. Type "Th is a tes"
3. Touch the misspelled words to correct them to "This" and "test"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
On some systems, the correction is inserted instead of replacing the typed word.

Appears to work correctly on Xoom (Honeycomb) and Nexus S (Gingerbread), 
possibly an issue on Froyo systems only?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 28 May 2011 at 8:13

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The Gingerbread keyboard's recorrection depends on an API method that didn't 
exist in earlier versions:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputConnection.
html#setComposingRegion(int, int)

I'm adding a crude workaround to update the selection if it's unable to set the 
composing region.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 29 May 2011 at 7:03

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The workaround made things worse, I disabled it again. Instead, I added a 
warning message toast when turning the option on.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 30 May 2011 at 10:40

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Does not work on Galaxy Tab 10.1.  Honeycomb 3.1.

Original comment by peterwri...@isky.co.za on 24 Jul 2011 at 10:36

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About comment #3, can you please be more specific about the behavior you're 
seeing?  Do you have "touch to correct" switched on in settings? The original 
bug was about recorrect on pre-Gingerbread devices, this shouldn't affect a 
Honeycomb device.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2011 at 1:16

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I'm done and complete to the T,so fresh and free

Original comment by Sexeel...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2015 at 2:14

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Free at last

Original comment by Sexeel...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2015 at 2:17