Re: bug#13109: 24.1; flyspell highlights words containing curly quotes which ispell-buffer accepts

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hello Reuben,

Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>> I've copied the default settings and added a curly single quote to the
>>> list of permitted "other characters". I imagine one can do the same for
>>> other languages. It's ugly (principally because it copies rather than
>>> overwriting information) but that information (the other entries in the
>>> record) doesn't change often, so it'll do until a more comprehensive
>>> solution is applied.
>>>
>>
>> Belay that, it doesn't work. It seems I have to type a new word for
>> flyspell to complain; merely passing the cursor over an old one (which
>> suffices to remove a highlight in a word that has been added to the
>> dictionary) does not suffice.
>>
>> If anyone can offer a functioning workaround, I'd be most grateful.
>>
>
> I read the documentation for ispell-dictionary-alist more carefully, and
> came up with:
>
>  '(ispell-local-dictionary-alist (quote (("british" "[[:alpha:]]"
> "[^[:alpha:]]" "['’]" t ("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8))))
>
> where I made the "others" character set a character class.

Not answering your questions, but commenting about this: it never has been
clear to me which var should really be edited...
`ispell-dictionary-base-alist', `ispell-base-dicts-override-alist' or
`ispell-local-dictionary-alist'...

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban