Re: [gedit-list] Spelling Plug-in

[Sak <sak 102010 gmail com>]

Thanks for your reply Steve.  I'm not sure I understand though. 
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't even know where to 
begin writing a patch.  But I'm still confused by your response.  Gedit 
uses aspell, the default dictionary installed on my system, but through 
another program called Enchant, and Enchant can't handle words with an 
apostrophe or single quote in them?  If that's the case, how come it 
successfully handles some words but not others?

Thanks,
Sak.

Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 13:49 -0700, Sak wrote:
>
> > So is Gedit using it's own dictionary in the spell checking plug-in?  If 
> > so, is it possible to have it use the default system dictionary, like 
> > aspell, or perhaps allow the user to select an alternative dictionary 
> > like myspell?
>
> It uses aspell/gspell/whatever through enchant, but it can't handle "'"
> in words (due to a limitation in pango's word boundary code, iirc). But
> patches are accepted as long as they don't break everything ;-)