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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] Re: Aspell and curly quotes
From:       "Leonardo F. Fontenelle" <leonardof () gnome ! org>
Date:       2008-07-23 1:33:05
Message-ID: 1216776785.21358.23.camel () jota ! casa
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Em Ter, 2008-07-22 Ã s 19:47 +1200, Jeremy Hughes escreveu:
> Did anyone find a solution to this problem?
> 
> > I use aspell from within Emacs. I have some documents that are stored in 
> > utf-8 and use the unicode code points for curly quotes (8220, 8221, 
> > 8216, and 8217) rather than ASCII straight quotes. Is there any way to 
> > get aspell to recognize a curly apostrophe as a word constituent so 
> > contractions (e.g. isn't, except where the ' is Unicode character 8217) 
> > are recognized as single words, correctly spelled words. At the moment 
> > it sees "isn" and complains about it.
> 

At first, I thought about adding it the special characters which can be
considered part of the word, but I just tried it, and it doesn't work.
Maybe because Aspell is 8 bit only, and AFAIK the curly apostrophe is
outside iso-8859-1.

I guess the only proper way of doing this is making Aspell understand
both kinds of apostrophes as "synonyms", which AFAIK would require you
to file a feature request.

-- 
Leonardo Fontenelle
http://leonardof.org




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