Re: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 03:23:16 +0300
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> > I've battled with this for years now: Hunspell marks any contraction with 
> > an apostrophe (eg the "I've" that starts this sentence) as misspelled.
> 
> Iʼd say that this is an obvious bug in the dictionary, that should be 
> reported.

Maybe with the dictionary you have, not with the one I have.

> FWIW, it is present in Debian 10 as well:
> 
>       $ HOME=/tmp DICPATH='' hunspell -d en_US
>       Hunspell 1.7.0
>       I've
>       *
>       & ve 15 2: be, v, e, eve, vie, ave, vet, veg, Eve, Ave, vs, vi, re, me, 
> he

I get just "*", meaning there's no spelling errors.