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

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