Package: hunspell Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: normal I was looking at using hunspell instead of ispell for automated spell checks of documentation, but ran into the serious problem that it apparently can't handle English contractions. This seems like a fatal flaw in a spell-checker to me. Am I missing something?
windlord:~> echo "isn't" | ispell -d american -l windlord:~> echo "isn't" | hunspell -d en_US -l isn A Google search turns up a bunch of people complaining about the same behavior in Firefox, which apparently recently switched to hunspell. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hunspell depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.5-1 spell checker and morphological an ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii myspell-en-us [myspell-di 1:2.4.0-2 English_american dictionary for my hunspell recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
