On 10 December 2012 23:34, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

> > I just repeated the experiment with a built of the default branch of
> emacs,
> > and obtained the same results.
>
> It seems we can do nothing to fix this.  `ispell-aspell-find-dictionary'
> reads the ispell data from /usr/lib/aspell/en.dat that contains
>
>   name en
>   charset iso8859-1
>   special ' -*-
>   soundslike en
>   affix en
>   #repl-table en_affix.dat
>
> where `special' defines just a straight quote.
>

Support for curly quotes in aspell appears to be partial and unreleased,
but Debian currently packages an unreleased version with this support; see:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533378

Hence, the support does exist, and, as I reported above, it works fine when
using ispell-buffer; it's only with flyspell that it doesn't work.