Does anyone know if the Kobo fully supports the .dic format? That is, every instruction that's possible in the .dic file is also understood by the Kobo. And does someone have a link to a page that explains how the patterns are constructed – for instance, what ".aan5" means?
I have a hard time believing that the .dic files I've tried would allow for such glaring mistakes as the ones I discovered, which leads me to believe that the Kobo isn't listening to what the .dic file really says, but it's hard for me to know if I don't know exactly how that file is constructed.
Or maybe it's because Swedish is not one of the listed languages, I will try to replace one of the official .dic files and see if the result differs.
I wasn't aware of this symlink, but I've used a patch posted in here somewhere that moves the hyphendicts folder onto the readable partition (in .addons/hyphenDicts/) but I have to restart the Kobo before the new dictionary file is read... maybe that's because of that symlink???