GNU bug report logs - #17437
24.3; ispell uses typographically correct apostrophe as word boundary

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Tobias Getzner" <tobias.getzner <at> gmx.de>

Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Tobias Getzner" <tobias.getzner <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; ispell uses typographically correct apostrophe as word boundary
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:15:17 +0200

When using the typographically correct apostrophe (“right single
quotation mark” U+2019), ispell will mark-up parts of words as typos.
E.g., in “doesn’t”, the part before the apostrophe will be highlighted
as a typo even if the spell-checker supports the apostrophe.

This bug occurs irrespective of the spell-checker, so I suppose that
ispell does its own tokenization and uses the apostrophe as a word
boundary. Instead, the apostrophe should correctly be treated as
word-internal punctuation and handed on to the actual spell-checker
program.

Best regards,
Tobias
 
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