Re: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 13:03:52 -0700
>>> 
>>> > Which apostrophe are you talking about: the ASCII one as in "I've", or
>>> > the non-ASCII one as in "I’ve"?  (The latter is not an "apostrophe",
>>> > to be exact, that character has a different name.)
>>> 
>>> I'm talking about the ASCII apostrophe, 0x27.
>>
>> Then I cannot reproduce this, it works for me, ispell.el (using
>> Hunspell as the speller) says "I'VE is correct".  I guess your
>> dictionary has a problem or something.  Or maybe you set up
>> spell-checking incorrectly (try in "emacs -Q").  There should be no
>> need to use ICONV at all.
>
> Ack! You're right, "emacs -Q" works fine. I should've checked that
> first. My only other spelling-related customization is setting
> `ispell-personal-dictionary', and setting `flyspell-use-meta-tab' to
> nil. I'll try changing those and figuring out what's going on.

I've unset `ispell-personal-dictionary' it's working correctly now.
Obviously there's something about personal dictionaries that I'm not
understanding.