{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vim/vim/issues/3747","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vim/vim","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vim/vim/issues/3747/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vim/vim/issues/3747/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vim/vim/issues/3747/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3747","id":395020301,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUzOTUwMjAzMDE=","number":3747,"title":"Ship UTF-8 affix files for spell checking","user":{"login":"tangentsoft","id":5102038,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjUxMDIwMzg=","avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/5102038?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft","html_url":"https://github.com/tangentsoft","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tangentsoft/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2018-12-31T19:04:29Z","updated_at":"2018-12-31T19:04:29Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"For English, at least, Vim currently does not ship `spell/en/main.aff`, which means that text like the following is flagged with a spelling error:\r\n\r\n     I don‘t like Emacs.\r\n\r\nNote the curled Unicode quote.\r\n\r\nAdding the following as the content of a new file called `.../spell/en/main.aff` fixes it:\r\n\r\n    SET utf-8\r\n    MIDWORD '-‘\r\n\r\nI want this done in the main project because some packaging schemes cause local changes like that to be lost on updates. My immediate use case is MacVim, where `/Applications/MacVim.app/` is deleted before the new one is unpacked, but this may happen with other packaging schemes.\r\n\r\nI realize this will cause Vim to assume UTF-8, but I think that's been a safe default for years now."}}
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