The spell-checker in Empathy parses apostrophes and quotation marks incorrectly. It splits words at apostrophes, so almost all contractions are incorrect (e.g. in "isn't", the "isn" part is misspelled; single letters aren't misspelled).

Furthermore, apostrophes (i.e. primes) and quotation marks (i.e. double primes) before the beginning of a word cause it to be misspelled. For example, "hello", including the quotation marks, is misspelled.