Re: [Aspell-user] Aspell removes some Polish characters if language is non-PL

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Przemys?aw 'Przemoc' Pawe?czyk wrote:
>
> > > For the English language do this....
> >
> > Yes! Now it works as expected:
> >
> > Polish characters can be found in ISO-8859-2 character set. It was
> > widely used in pre-UTF8 days (and still is in many places).
> > Changing ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-2 instead of ISO-8859-1-U would also
> > work? Or there are some other dependencies behind the scene?
>
> The word list is encoded in iso-8859-1, changing the charset to iso-8859-2 
> will cause the word list to be in interpreted as iso-8859-2 which will be 
> incorrect for non-ASCII characters.  iso-8859-1-u in backwards compatible 
> with iso-8859-1 as it only adds characters to the unused control blocks.

Just to be clear.  To make a similar change to other languages that use 
one of the Latin iso-8859-# character sets use iso-8859-#-u.  For example 
for the polish dictionary use iso-8859-2-u.