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Thunderbird Spell check fails on contraction "doesn't" it is flagged as "doesn" is incorrect.

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The above problem happened in pasted content and could be bypassed only by ignoring it. I believe the contraction should be recognized. The scan of the word was stopped by the apostrophe.

The above problem happened in pasted content and could be bypassed only by ignoring it. I believe the contraction should be recognized. The scan of the word was stopped by the apostrophe.

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Thanks. I looked again and solved the problem. The apostrophe was the 'reverse version (below the tilde(~`) on the upper left side of my qwerty keyboard, not the normal one that shares the quote key.

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Matt
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Pasted from what source? I see all sorts of garbage HTML coming from Word which places apostrophes as a separate text element in the vain attempt to make HTML "smart quote" aware.

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Thanks. I looked again and solved the problem. The apostrophe was the 'reverse version (below the tilde(~`) on the upper left side of my qwerty keyboard, not the normal one that shares the quote key.