2022-08-10 10:09 UTC+02:00, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > Hi, > > How many spell checking thingies are in place on a run-of-the-mill > installation? > > I've forgotten which application it was, now, but the other day I was > having to add ordinary words to the dictionary, as it was flagging up > normal words as being incorrect. > > Words like: don't, won't, can't. Each time it fouled up at the > apostrophe. > > I can understand odd words being unrecognised, but failing those ones > were sheer stupidity. > > And, no it wasn't a case of ASCII apostrophe versus fancier UTF > apostrophes. Not that it should foul up on them, either. If I type an > apostrophe character, a correct one and not something that looks > vaguely similar but is wrong (like the Brits using grave accents), the > spell checkers should handle that. > > Now I want to track down the culprit.
hunspell doesn't seem to have this problem. That's what I think emacs uses, but I tried it now on the command line with your mail and it didn't complain about "don't". _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
