Re: [bug] vim incorrectly highlights words such as "L'Italie" as mistake with French spelling checker (same bug with Italian spelling checker)

Dominique Pelle wrote:

> French spelling checker of Vim-7.3.135 incorrectly highlights "L'Italie"
> as a mistake at the beginning of a sentence such as:
>
> L'Italie est un pays européen. [fr]
>
> Pressing z= suggests "l'Italie" but that's incorrect at the beginning
> of the sentence.
>
> It is a systematic problem with all words starting with L'+Uppercase
> such as: L'Amérique, L'Angleterre, etc.
>
> ":spelldump" shows words such as:
>
> l'Amérique
> l'Angleterre
> l'Italie
>
> I see the same problem with the Italian spelling checker: "L'Italia"
> is incorrectly marked as a mistake in a correct sentence such as:
>
> L'Italia è un Paese europeo. [it]
>
> I suspect that the problem comes from Vim rather than from the
> the French or Italian myspell files:
>
> vim/runtime/spell/it/it_IT.dic contains:
>
> Italia/TUqrs
>
> vim/runtime/spell/it/it_IT.aff contains:
>
> MIDWORD '
>
> ...snip...
>
> PFX T 0 l' [aeiouhAEIOUH]
> PFX T a l'A a
> PFX T e l'E e
> PFX T i l'I i
> PFX T o l'O o
> PFX T u l'U u
> PFX T h l'H h

I vagueally recall doing something for this. In Dutch it's slightly
different. This may require a flag in the .aff file to tell the spell
checker what the rule is at the start of the sentence for letters with a
single quote.

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