Re: not a bug, per se, just really annoying.

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 01:01:16 CET

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 10:40 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Actually I think this is more likely to be caused by our new smart
> quotes feature which changes the glyph of apostropies.

But 'mistresses' does not contain any apostrophe?

  Marc

> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Keith BOWES <zooplah@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Je 2010-Nov-21 je 19:11, J.M. Maurer skribis:
> >>
> >> To our spelling guru's: would this a problem with our dictionaries (i
> >> think we still have ancient ispell dictionaries on Win32)? If so, then
> >> we should start shipping modern dictionaries.
> >>
> >
> > That would be my guess. I'm using a MySpell dictionary (the same used
> > for Firefox) on Linux and I don't have any plural problems. I don't
> > know the problem with contractions. Maybe the code doesn't consider
> > apostrophes parts of words, as you're not supposed to use apostrophes in
> > formal writing anyway.
> >
> > --
> > Keith
> >
Received on Tue Nov 23 01:01:27 2010

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