Re: [Aspell-user] Invaled generated charcters by aspell dump

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Ahmad El-Gazzaz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to generate lectures for ktouch but I failed due to 
> invalid characters in the file generated by aspell command:
> ******************
> $ aspell dump master arabic > ~/ktouch.txt
> ******************
> The file size is ~21 MB so it is hard to attach so I will attach just a small 
> portion of it.(The file is encoded in UTF-8)
> Can you help me with issue so I can generate these lectures?

It looks like you have an encoding problem.

Make sure your locale (or more specify LC_CTYPE, use the "locale" to find 
out) is set to a UTF-8 encoding for example (en_US.UTF-8) or 
alternatively specify --encoding on the command line:
  aspell dump master arabic --encoding=utf-8