Re: ispell-complete-word in spanish

[Kevin Rodgers]

Hamilton Temple wrote:
> In GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2005-12-15 on icaro
> configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share 
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-x --with-xpm 
> --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png --with-x-toolkit=athena 
> --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: es_ES@euro
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: es_ES@euro
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> I'm not sure if this is an emacs bug or a badly configured ispell.  My 
> ispell configuration is:
>
> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
> ;;(setq-default ispell-program-name "ispell")
> (setq ispell-dictionary "castellano")
> (setq ispell-complete-word-dict "/usr/share/dict/spanish")
>
> Ispell/Aspell checks spelling in words with accentuated chars correctly. 
> My problem
> is related  to ispell-complete-word and flyspell. Flyspell/Aspell 
> doesn't recognizes accentuated
> chars.  If I have the word "drástico" and call ispell-complete-word , 
> then It uses
> "stico" as "search string".  That occurs without mattering where the 
> accentuated
> vowel is inside the word.

In Latin-9, á is \341, which is in both the CASECHARS and NOT-CASECHARS
regexps of the "castellano" entry in ispell-dictionary-alist.  But the
call to (ispell-get-word nil "\\*") fails here to find the beginning of
the word and stops at the accented character:

    ;; move to front of word
    (re-search-backward ispell-not-casechars (point-min) 'start)

However, I can get it to work by making ispell-decode-string a no-op:

(defun ispell-decode-string (str) str)

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Kevin Rodgers