GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 692156
Spell checker splits words with «l·l» as if they were two words
Last modified: 2014-04-12 11:24:16 UTC
In Catalan we use the «ela geminada» [1] which is just a way to stretch an «l» (so to say). The thing is that this «ela geminala» (written as «l·l») happens *always* within a word, the middle dot is *never* used to split words (as an apostrophe would be used in «Jon's car»). Still, the spell checker insists to think that words containing the «ela geminada» are just two words which happen to have a weird dot in between. I'm not sure if gedit is the one to blame or there is some other underlying library used for the spell checker. If the later, please reassign the bug :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct#Catalan
Looking at gedit source I realized that enchant is the underlying library used for spell checking, so I already filed a but there: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13465 Should this bug be closed then?
Enchant works on single words, are you sure gedit feeds to it the complete word with interpunct?
I would guess not because whenever I have a word say «intel·ligent» in any file and I start the spell checker first it says that «intel» is a mistake and then «ligent» another mistake. So the spell checker uses the interpunct as a normal word delimiter.
I think this should be reported to pango, that's where the word-splitting algorithm is.
Bug #700103 is more recent, but have more information. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 700103 ***