[gedit-list] Spelling Plug-in

[Sak <sak 102010 gmail com>]

Hey everyone,

I have a few issues or questions about the spelling plug-in for Gedit. 
I'm not sure which dictionary the plug-in is using, but it seems to be 
different than what's installed on my system.  I'm using Ubuntu 7.04, 
with Gedit 2.18.1.

The common inconsistency has to do with contractions.  Taking the 
following list as a test case, Gedit marks 22 of the 59 words as 
incorrect.  It also mistakenly recognizes the word "Iv'e" as correct, 
which is what set me on this problem.

My system installs aspell and I'm using the aspell-en dictionary by 
default.  When I run the same list of words against it, aspell only 
reports the following words as incorrect:

daren't
there'll
that'll
what'll
when's

...and recognizes the "Iv'e" typo as a misspelling.

The myspell dictionary that Mozilla (I'm using Thunderbird 2.0 to write 
this message) and OpenOffice.org uses only reports the following 3 words 
as incorrect:

daren't
what'll
when's

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?

I tried searching against the list archives, but it seems to be busted 
currently, and wasn't able to pony up any results, so I apologize if 
this is a redundant question.

Here's the list of contractions:

I'm
I've
I'll
I'd
you're
you've
you'll
you'd
he's
he'll
he'd
she's
she'll
she'd
it's
it'll
we're
we've
we'll
we'd
they're
they've
they'll
they'd
aren't
can't
couldn't
daren't
didn't
doesn't
don't
hasn't
haven't
hadn't
isn't
mayn't
mightn't
mustn't
needn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
wasn't
weren't
won't
wouldn't
here's
there'll
there's
that's
that'll
how's
what'll
what's
when's
where's
who's
who'd
who'll