l apostrophe in french

Hi,

I'm using konqueror and its spelling checker. I noticed words
beginning with l' aren't recognized, but it's a very common form in
french : "l'" stands for "the" but there's no space between "l'" and
the word after. So the apostrophe should probably be seen as a word
separator between l and the word following it.

So my question is this : is there any way to tweak aspell in order to
work the way I describe above ? Is this a aspell bug ? Is this a
konqueror bug ? Is this a distribution bug (I'm on Mandriva 2006 using
aspell-0.60.3)

Thanks,

Vincent.