Re: [Aspell-user] Spelling of non-ascii characters

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Mads Ipsen wrote:

> 1. Create extra (supplemental) dictionary:
>
> ~  aspell --lang=en create master ./wordlist.bin < wordlist.txt
>
> where wordlist.txt in an ordinary ascii (text) file. If wordlist.txt
> contains the word "Ångström", the above command generates the warning:
>
> ~  Warning: The word "�ngström" is invalid. The character '?' (U+85)
> may not appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word.

It looks like you are giving it UTF-8 encoded input, while Aspell expects 
iso-8859-1.  Adding "--encoding=utf-8" so that you have:

aspell --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 create master ./wordlist.bin < wordlist.txt

Should fix the problem.