From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:48:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2pelh8t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
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.
It used to be that I could edit /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff and add
the apostrophe to WORDCHARS (and also "ICONV ’ '"), and that would do
it. Until the next time the hunspell package updated, and over-wrote its
config files (I'm running Arch linux), and I would have to do it again.
As of six months or a year or so ago, that trick no longer works. I add
the apostrophe to the above-mentioned file, and to
"/usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.aff", but it has no effect.
I've got this in my init:
(set-language-environment "utf-8")
And my shell $LANG variable is en_US.UTF-8. The
"/usr/share/myspell/dicts" directory contains *.aff and *.dic files for
all the en_* variants.
I don't know what else to edit! I'm sort of amazed that this problem is
so persistent, and so difficult to fix.
Any pointers very welcome!
Eric
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-26 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-26 17:48 Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-05-26 19:08 ` Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes 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
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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