just tried the patch described in the original message on the source package downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/it/aspell-it-0.53-0.tar.bz2 1) I created a text file ("test_it.txt") containing the following list of words #--- START LIST all'inizio d'aiuto dall'elenco dell'attuale l'apertura nell'ordine un'immagine avviabile Bourne cable device inode installabile malfunzionante scorrelato update #--- END LIST 2) I then run the following command and, as expected, they're all *not* recognized by aspell cat test_it.txt | aspell list --lang=it 3) uninstall the italian dictionary with "make uninstall" 4) apply the suggested patch overwriting the original "it.dat" with the new one 5) rebuild and re-install the dictionary with "make install" 6) run again "cat test_it.txt | aspell list --lang=it" This time *all* the words are known to aspell, which is wrong: the 7 words preceded by "'" are now correctly recognized, but the other words are not listed in the dictionary. This is how I searched the words in the dictionary: aspell dump master ~/tools_0.50.5/lib/aspell/it.rws | grep -i "^avviabile$" ... aspell dump master ~/tools_0.50.5/lib/aspell/it.rws | grep -i "^update$" For my tests I used aspell 0.50.0 on my Woody chroot environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]