Re: Words containing apostrophe or hyphen

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote:

> I encountered ASpell through its implementation in the UltraEdit text editor.
>
> I found it was not possible to add a word containing a hyphen, or a 
> word containing an apostrophe at the beginning or end, to the user 
> dictionary.  This is something which I need to do (in English, think 
>'twas  or makin' ).

This is language specific.  Both cases can have a number of undesirable 
effects.  Please see 
ttp://aspell.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html for background 
on some of the issues.

> In UltraEdit, the words can be added and will appear 
> in a list of the dictionary, but an attempt to spellcheck then causes
> the computer to hang.

This is likely a bug somewhere.  How do you use Aspell in UltraEdit?

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