gedit doesn't handle apostrophes correctly when spell-checking

Thanks for your bug. It's known upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131576

I have been able to reproduce this in Lucid Beta 1

ridiculous this hasn't been fixed in years! very annoying.

Same Bug in French too, but really annoying, cause French got a lot of this kind of words, like qu'elle, qu'un, aujourd'hui....

I confirm this is still a problem in Precise Beta 2.

If this can't be fixed, then the auto-spell-check feature should probably be removed.

Same 12.04 LTS, I looked over the source code and found that sections of "gedit-spell-checker" reference that it was modified from "gtkspell 2.0.2".
At gtkspell.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog references in a later version:

"version 2.0.11 (2005-05-27):
 * Re-enable apostrophe word-breaking workarounds (GNOME bug #97545).
 * Additional translations (see po/ChangeLog)."

This seems that they have found a fix for gtkspell and may help to solve the problem in "gedit-spell-checker"

The relevent part of the code is:
<code>

static gboolean
gtkspell_text_iter_forward_word_end(GtkTextIter *i) {
 GtkTextIter iter;

/* heuristic:
 * if we're on an singlequote/apostrophe and
 * if the next letter is alphanumeric,
 * this is an apostrophe. */

 if (!gtk_text_iter_forward_word_end(i))
  return FALSE;

 if (gtk_text_iter_get_char(i) != '\'')
  return TRUE;

 iter = *i;
 if (gtk_text_iter_forward_char(&iter)) {
  if (g_unichar_isalpha(gtk_text_iter_get_char(&iter))) {
   return (gtk_text_iter_forward_word_end(i));
  }
 }

 return TRUE;
}

</code>

Which it looks like someone has already adapted into a workaround here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131576

Looks like It may have been abandoned, since the fix existed since 2004, and the bug since around 2002, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97545

10 years later...

That should be fixed in gedit 3.20 so probably next cycle in ubuntu

Upstream bug closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2016-03-05
Checked ok Ubuntu 18.04 and gedit 3.28.1
Marking "Fix Released" to close