Re: hunspell support

[Sascha Wilde]

Agustin Martin Domingo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sascha Wilde <wilde <at> sha-bang.de> writes:
>> 
>> One problem seems to be, that in contrast to the manual page hunspell in
>> pipe mode does not handle lines starting with `~' like ispell -- in fact
>> currently I'm under the impression it doesn't handle them specially at
>> all...
>> 
>> I don't know how much of an problem this is -- I simply don't know
>> enough about the details of ispell, hunspell and Emacs ispell mode.
>
> IIRC, that handles the extended character mode. From ispell.el
>
>    EXTENDED-CHARACTER-MODE should be used when dictionaries are used which
>    have been configured in an Ispell affix file.  (For example, umlauts
>    can be encoded as \\\"a, a\\\", \"a, ...)  
>
> This has currently not meaning for aspell and hunspell, although none of them
> complain about it for backwards compatibility. I have read somewhere that 
> aspell
> may have in the future support for some of those mappings (e.g., \'a -> á), 
> but
> do not know how that will be enabled.

Thanks for the explanation, so this should be no problem with
ispell-/flyspell-mode.

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde

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