Re: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 13:03:52 -0700
>> 
>> > Which apostrophe are you talking about: the ASCII one as in "I've", or
>> > the non-ASCII one as in "I’ve"?  (The latter is not an "apostrophe",
>> > to be exact, that character has a different name.)
>> 
>> I'm talking about the ASCII apostrophe, 0x27.
>
> Then I cannot reproduce this, it works for me, ispell.el (using
> Hunspell as the speller) says "I'VE is correct".  I guess your
> dictionary has a problem or something.  Or maybe you set up
> spell-checking incorrectly (try in "emacs -Q").  There should be no
> need to use ICONV at all.

Ack! You're right, "emacs -Q" works fine. I should've checked that
first. My only other spelling-related customization is setting
`ispell-personal-dictionary', and setting `flyspell-use-meta-tab' to
nil. I'll try changing those and figuring out what's going on.

Sorry for the noise,
Eric