Russian words containing the letter ё (yo) are marked as misspelled

[Jacob Popov]

Russian spell-checking dictionary currently marks all words containing Ё/ё as misspelled. However, those words must be considered correctly spelled both with Е/е and with Ё/ё.

Russian alphabet contains a letter Ё/ё (pronounced as yoh). When writing, Russian language allows substituting this letter with Е/е (pronounced as yeh). But there are cases when the use of Ё/ё is obligatory, that is, when substituting Ё with Е changes the meaning completely.

Here is the current workaround: http://askubuntu.com/questions/625302/how-to-teach-ubuntu-15-04-russian-spelling-system-the-%D1%91-letter
There is Russian hunspell dictionary which tolerates Ё/ё in the PPA: ppa:andrew-crew-kuznetsov/xneur-stable
Maybe we should replace the current hunspell-ru package with the one provided with the PPA or is there a way to merge them?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: hunspell-ru (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Aug 14 18:57:36 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-17 (239 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386 (20141022.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hunspell-ru
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-07-08 (37 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.