bug#13109: 24.1; flyspell highlights words containing curly quotes which ispell-buffer accepts

[Reuben Thomas]

On 10 December 2012 23:34, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

> I just repeated the experiment with a built of the default branch of emacs,
> and obtained the same results.

It seems we can do nothing to fix this.  `ispell-aspell-find-dictionary'
reads the ispell data from /usr/lib/aspell/en.dat that contains

  name en
  charset iso8859-1
  special ' -*-
  soundslike en
  affix en
  #repl-table en_affix.dat

where `special' defines just a straight quote.

Support for curly quotes in aspell appears to be partial and unreleased, but Debian currently packages an unreleased version with this support; see:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533378

Hence, the support does exist, and, as I reported above, it works fine when using ispell-buffer; it's only with flyspell that it doesn't work.