[aspell-devel] Aspell and UTF-8 Dictionaries

[Daniel Yacob]

Greetings,

When I tried to build a dictionary, where the words are in
UTF-8 encoding, aspell segfaults.  I'm using the latest 
0.54.1 version.  Should Aspell be able to build UTF-8
encoded dictionaries?

Working with the online manaul I first made a basic dictionary
dat file, very basic with only:

--------------------
# Amharic data file
 
name    amharic
charset unicode
--------------------

Next, I compile the word list as per:

aspell --lang=amharic create master ./myBase < myWords

and it dies right away.  Should this work?  I realize that
"unicode" does not necessarily imply UTF-8.  Is there any
way to work with dictionaries in Unicode?

thanks,

/Daniel