bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?)

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Reuben Thomas

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Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:41:53 +0000

On 19 December 2016 at 01:02, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

On 18 December 2016 at 23:39, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

So a reasonable definition of cache units (I will not say "words" any more) might be whitespace-delimited strings. This would not need casechars, not-casechars, otherchars and many-otherchars-p.

I've put this on my to-investigate list for the future; of course, if there's an obvious reason it wouldn't work, do let me know!

Basic tests using [[:alpha:]] for casechars and [^[:alpha:]] for not-casechars seem to work OK.

I meant [[:graph:]] and [^[:graph:]].

What would be a more rigorous test? So far I just tried some spell-checking and use of flyspell.

Also, as I realised while preparing the patch for bug#25230, it is only hunspell that has special information about character classes. All the others just use [:alpha:]. So if it's good enough for ispell and aspell, can't it be good enough for enchant? (It just means that for now "direct Hunspell" is arguably better than "Hunspell via Enchant".)

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