Re: ispell.el doesn't find all of aspell's dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Juri Linkov wrote:

> >>> +     (list dict-name
> >>> +           "[[:alpha:]]"
> >>> +           "[^[:alpha:]]"
> >>
> >> This code doesn't take into account the real charsets used in
> >> dictionaries.  Maybe it should extract the `charset' field
> >> from `dat' files?
> >
> > Is that important?  Aspell can handle anything we throw at it, as long
> > as it is UTF-8.
> 
> I observed several problems with spell-checking multi-language texts
> using aspell with ispell.el.  Maybe those are bugs in aspell, but
> we could try to improve ispell.el to work around them.

Could you be more specific on the problems you are having.  Also What 
version of Aspell are you using?  Aspell 0.50 does not handle UTF-8 
correctly while Aspell 0.60 does.

> 
> > In this new patch I've also included your changes for user awareness
> > of which program is being used, and changed aspell-* to ispell-aspell-*.
> 
> I already installed my changes, so please update your patch from CVS.
> 
> 

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