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24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 20741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:33:32 +0000

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 12:37, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

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> Maybe we should have a list of exceptions?
>

As an upstream spellchecker maintainer, I don't think that's a good idea.
Emacs should just be using the spellchecker. If it's not working, the
problem should be fixed in the spellchecker.

As far as I can see, the problem is not specific to flyspell (mea culpa for
the bug title!).

For now, with current hunspell dictionaries, and using either hunspell, or
enchant with hunspell backend, I have used the workaround of adding a few
words like "etc" to my personal word list.

To be honest, I'm not sure Emacs can do much here. As far as I can tell,
hunspell doesn't cope well with characters like "." that normally are
non-word characters, but *can* occur in a word.

Relatedly, see: https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/361

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