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Old 02-05-2013, 06:57 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by meme View Post
In 0.7.0 this will be easier since as a list of words you can filter on apostrophe and select them all to ignore or add. And even better you can create a separate dictionary, e.g. French-apostrophe, and put all your apostrophe'd words into it, and enable it along with whatever other user dictionaries you want. .
It's always great to leave a choice.

I just wanted to stress some points:

What is the "apostrophe typographique" ("curly")?

To confirm with an image so that there should be no confusion about it
It's Unicode U+2019, (or & # 8217; or & rsquo; which are just other names for exactly the same thing). Left image.

How do hunspell behaves with it in French?

This proves that it tends just to ignore it. This is a test made with OpenOffice 3.4.1, with a French LOCALE and U+2019. Middle image.

As you can see the sentence in the middle, with two apostrophes missing gets the same lack of flagging as the upper (apos. provided with Grammalecte) and lower one (apos. by inserting a special character with Linux Libertine).
The Grammalecte extension helps provide the U+2019 by default.

Mind!!! This hunspell behaviour may change using other LOCALE than fr_FR

Apostrophes are important in French language

I think it is pointless to expect hunspell to know all elided forms in French. They are just too numerous. But others may try it... Right image.
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