I am marking this as confirmed on jaunty, using en_ZA.UTF-8 locale, and
shifting package to something more appropriate. I have the following
dictionaries installed: myspell-en-au, myspell-en-za, myspell-en-gb, and
aspell-en. Enchant, when running from the command-line, says:
monon...@r2d2:~$ enchant -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.4.2)
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
... but continues on to spell-check words anyway. I don't know whether
this is normal or not.
Words which are extensions of a root word, such as "things",
"cushioned", or "wanting", are detected as misspellings. "thing",
"cushion", and "want" are accepted. 'enchant -a' detects all of these
extensions as being misspellings:
monon...@r2d2:~$ enchant -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.4.2)
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
cushioned
& cushioned 4 0: cushion, fashioned, Cushitic, cautioned
... however, aspell does not:
monon...@r2d2:~$ aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
cushioned
*
... but that makes sense, I suppose, since I also have this as the
default:
monon...@r2d2:~$ cat /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering
*:myspell,aspell,ispell
A second, possibly-related issue is that apostrophes found in words are,
in *some* applications (such as OGMrip), detected as misspellings. In
other applications, the same words are found to be correct. My working
hypothesis is that UTF-8 curly-apostrophes and normal-keyboard-
apostrophes are being interpreted differently, although there is very
little perceptible difference to the user.
** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => enchant (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: enchant (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Spell Checker Doesn't Work Consistently
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254223
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