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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 05:32:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftbmt8eq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o8qa5iq3.dag@gnui.org> (message from Dmitry Alexandrov on Wed, 27 May 2020 03:23:16 +0300)

> From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 03:23:16 +0300
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> > I've battled with this for years now: Hunspell marks any contraction with an apostrophe (eg the "I've" that starts this sentence) as misspelled.
> 
> Iʼd say that this is an obvious bug in the dictionary, that should be reported.

Maybe with the dictionary you have, not with the one I have.

> FWIW, it is present in Debian 10 as well:
> 
> 	$ HOME=/tmp DICPATH='' hunspell -d en_US
> 	Hunspell 1.7.0
> 	I've
> 	*
> 	& ve 15 2: be, v, e, eve, vie, ave, vet, veg, Eve, Ave, vs, vi, re, me, he

I get just "*", meaning there's no spelling errors.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-26 17:48 Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-26 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-26 20:03   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-27  2:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-27 21:24       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-27 21:53         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-28  6:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 14:00             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-28 16:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 17:30                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-28 17:45                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-27  0:23 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-05-27  2:32   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-27  4:22   ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-27  6:05     ` (Mis?)using quote as apostrophe (was: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-05-27  6:53       ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-27  7:53         ` (Mis?)using quote as apostrophe Dmitry Alexandrov

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