Dictionaries, Suggestion List, and Real Apostrophes

[Rod Lockwood <ro...@provide.net.INVALID>]

Is there a way to get AOO to accept real apostrophes (’) by default 
instead of the straight single quote (') in words?

Sometimes the spellchecking just doesn’t work well. Sometimes I wind up 
with nonsense words in the Suggestions list, usually with the most 
likely candidates at the bottom. Sometimes the word will be in the user 
dictionary, but for some reason still being flagged. Recently, I 
remembered years ago in a program the spellchecker would have a list of 
words and when none of them were correct, you typed in your word and it 
was added to the top of the list. Or if the word was correct and already 
in the dictionary but still being flagged, you had an option to mark the 
word as being the correct word and continue the search. I tried 
different strategies to fix this in the Exceptions dictionary, but it 
either winds up making no difference or making it worse.

Sometimes punctuation at the end of the sentence is flagged. I can 
understand when it is confused as to whether the period should be inside 
or outside of a quote mark or parenthesis, but sometimes it flags 
periods. Is there someway to add these punctuation markings permanently 
to an Ignore list? Or just have them not flagged at all?

Also I just realized having foreign dictionaries installed doesn’t 
really do anything to spellcheck foreign words and names in an English 
language file. I use a lot of foreign words and names in my files and 
stories. Could there be some way to make a document language neutral or 
something so words from all languages are checked? Or possibly a way to 
have a foreign language dictionary show up on the list of user dictionaries?

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Sincerely,
Rod Lockwood