[Hunspell-devel] Issue with special characters not being seen as part of word

[Michael B. <fi...@ak...>]

Hiya

I'm trying to help a Ju|'hoan literacy project with building a spell 
checker but we've run into a problem with the click symbols: ǀ ǁ ǂ ǃ

Because these are not on any physical keyboard, people often use 
workarounds such as // for ǁ or = for ǂ. I'd asked Ruud about this some 
time ago and he suggested using OCONV as Hunspell for Dutch does. So in 
the .aff we've added (I've uploaded the test oxt here 
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As4CJ_WG25zTgSTh2Lz2y3nDRvj8 )

OCONV 7
OCONV ! ǃ
OCONV = ǂ
OCONV ≠ ǂ
OCONV | ǀ
OCONV / ǀ
OCONV || ǁ
OCONV // ǁ

REP 7

REP ! ǃ
REP = ǂ
REP ≠ ǂ
REP | ǀ
REP / ǀ
REP || ǁ
REP // ǁ

But the problem seem to be that the "workaround characters" are not seen 
as part of the word. So for instance, if I type
!Aotcha
using a normal exclamation mark, I get a red line (in LO) under Aotcha 
but not the !. It does manage to match this to ǃAotcha but if I select 
that, I end up with !ǃAotcha presumably because the exclamation mark is 
just "seen" as oddly placed punctuation and ignored by Hunspell.

Is there something we're doing wrong or not doing or is this simply not 
possible with Hunspell?

Cheers

Michael