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30.0.50; ispell fails on apostrophes when the dictionary includes contractions

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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67857: closed (30.0.50; ispell fails on apostrophes when the
 dictionary includes contractions)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:28:01 +0000

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From: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.0.50;
 ispell fails on apostrophes when the dictionary includes contractions
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:03:46 -0800

   1.  "emacs -Q" (in an environment that uses hunspell by default).

   2.  In the *scratch* buffer, type "this wiouldn't work".

   3.  Type M-b three times to move point before the "w" in the second
word.

   4.  Type M-$.  The sole offered replacement is "wouldn't" but the
text it offers to replace is "wiouldn"; typing "0" to take the
replacement results in "this wouldn't't work" in the buffer.

   On my system, the value of ispell-really-hunspell is "1.6.2"; further
configuration data appear below.  The problem seems to be that the
dictionary hunspell is using contains contractions, but ispell is
expecting just [:alpha:] words.  I tried tweaking the regexps in
ispell-dictionary-alist to accept apostrophes, but got the error:

	ispell--run-on-word: Ispell and its process have different
	character maps: (* & wiouldn 1 1: wouldn't)

It seems like a job tailor-made for OTHERCHARS, but I get the same error
whether I add the apostrophe to OTHERCHARS via

	(setf (nth 3 (assoc nil ispell-dictionary-alist)) "['0-9]")

or to CASECHARS and NOT-CASECHARS in tandem, via (e.g.):

	(setf (nth 1 (assoc nil ispell-dictionary-alist)) "['[:alpha:]]")

   I do not understand how to get past this point, so either the code is
failing somehow (and I appreciate that it might be hard to glean the
right config bits for the dictionar(y|ies) in use), I am missing or
misunderstanding some part of the documentation, or the documentation is
lacking.  TIA,

					-- Bob Rogers
					   http://www.rgrjr.com/

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
Cc: 67857-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67857: 30.0.50;
 ispell fails on apostrophes when the dictionary includes contractions
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:27:18 +0200

> From: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:22:07 -0800
> CC: 67857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>    I see no bug in Emacs here.  ispell.el works as intended.
> 
> Agreed; this is probably an openSUSE config problem.  Unfortunately, I
> can't file a bug with them because they are still shipping 27.2 (at
> least in their openSUSE Leap 15.5 release) and I can't reproduce this
> issue in that version.

OK, thanks for getting back to us.  I'm therefore closing this bug.

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