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hunspell match words with apostrophe

How can I make OpenOffice find words with initial and final apostrophe like: 'sa and int' but not sa or int?

OpenOffice seems to exclude the apostrophe from the word, returning a non-match for 'sa (in fact it matches sa, that is a bad word).

I have tried including BREAK 0 in the aff file without success.

I have tried with WORDCHARS '‘’ without success.

I have the following rules in the aff file:

PFX a Y 1

PFX a kò ' kò

SFX b Y 1

SFX b é ' inté

And the following words in the dictionary:

kòsa/a

inté/b

Solution

  • This is a good example of why the Unicode standard is important. The U+0027 apostrophe character is punctuation, not intended to be part of a word. Use the word-forming code point U+02BC instead.

    Replace the character in the document as well as in the dictionary and affix files.