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Bug#964257: Correctly handle apostophes in English dictionaries

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Package: hunspell-en-us
Version: 1:2019.10.06-1
Severity: minor

For an embarassingly long time I was wondering why
aspell/ispell/hunspell wouldn't handle correctly anything basic with
apostrophes, such as "isn't".

Turns out I read the explaination, by random chance, here:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell#toc16

It seems that /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff already has the ICONV rules,
but doesn't include "'’" in WORDCHARS.

I can confirm that those to WORDCHARS makes hunspell actually behave as
intended. Shouldn't this be the default for all english dictionaries?

(note that while the URL mentions emacs, this does affect the basic
hunspell cli as well)

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Bug#964257: Correctly handle apostophes in English dictionaries Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> - 2020-07-04 17:20 +0200

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