French contractions not always recognized

[dbolton]

var dictionary = new Typo("fr", affData, dicData);
var is_spelled_correctly = dictionary.check("j'espère") //should be true, but returns false
// (The word "j'espère" is a form of the verb "j'espèrer" as explained here: http://www.wordreference.com/fren/j%E2%80%99esp%C3%A8re )
var is_spelled_correctly = dictionary.check("C'est") //should be true, but returns false
// (The word "C'est" is a contraction meaning "It is", see http://www.wordreference.com/fren/c%27est )

I used the French dictionary and affix files installed by default with OpenOffice.org (en). You can obtain the files directly from: http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO330/file/b70298db35e1/dictionaries/fr_FR

The dictionary line reads: espérer/c2a+()
est/L'D'Q'

[cfinke]

For C'est, the only affix rules specified in the dictionary for the "est" root are for generating l'est, d'est, qu'est, quoiqu'est, puisqu'est, and lorsqu'est. C'est could be added by also specifying the c' rule, so that one is a bug in the dictionary.

For j'espère, it looks like the affix file specifies a kind of combination prefix+suffix rule that I'm not yet handling properly.

[cfinke]

As of commit e1ee921, words like j'espère are properly recognized, and several forms of espérer have been added as testcases.

[dbolton]

Wonderful.

It looks like what ever you did also fixed "C'est".

[cfinke]

Yeah, this fix did also cover c'est - it wasn't an omission like I thought, since I didn't fully understand continuation cases in the affix file.