Am 27.09.2010 um 13:50 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Stephan Witt wrote: >> As JMarc said we should try to strip the apostrophes ourself somehow. >> I'll think about it and propose a patch later. > > But note that this is not correct in all cases (and we should look at what > the > spellcheckers really do before proceeding). > > For example, a spell checker could, at least in theory, decide that the word > rollin' is correct, while rollin is not. You might say that this is non- > standard English spelling, but I'm not sure you can say that a preceeding (or > leading) apostrophe is non-standard in all languages we support.
Good point. It's similar to "ggf" and "ggf." in German. The problem is you cannot know how a spell checker implements this. Even more it may change from version to version of the engine. Perhaps, the strategy with the "2nd try when failing" helps here too. Stephan
