Kyle Wheeler wrote:
Hello,
I frequently compose text that uses curly quotes (’) in words (e.g.
"women’s"). I also use the spell checker a lot. Unfortunately, the
(utf-8) curly quote seems to confuse the spell checker. While "women's"
is accepted as a correct spelling, "women’s" causes the trailing s to be
highlighted as a misspelling.
Does anyone know if there's a way (perhaps by patching vim) to get curly
quotes to be treated the same as single quotes?
~Kyle
The quick-and-dirty hack is
1. :%s/’/'/g
2. spell-check
3. use undo (u) or :%s/'/’/gc (using the c "confirm" flag because not
every apostrophe/quote is to be turned into a leftward-slanting
apostrophe) to change everything back.
Of course, this is _not_ a proper fix. The "proper" fix would require
making ' and ’ equivalent (when used as an apostrophe) in the spell
dictionary.
-- Note that although being labeled as "preferred" in the Unicode
documentation, the ’ character (U+2019) is not as portable as ' (Ox27)
which is part of the 7-bit US-ASCII character set (which is a subset of
most others). I have seen some HTML pages which used ’ but did not
specify Unicode, or even explicitly specified Latin1 or Windows-1252,
with the result that the display was garbled.
Best regards,
Tony.
