On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:30:26AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Son, 06 Nov 2005, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > I am afraid that is a limitation of current Debian ispell,
> >
> > -----------------------
> > $ echo "Gödel" > test.data
> > $ cat test.data | ispell -l -d american
> > del
> > -----------------------
> >
> > That is what triggers the error message, and will happen when a word with
> > characters not in ispell declared chars (in the aff file) is spellchecked.
> > If
>
> Ahhhhh. Thanks. Well, but then, this could easily be solved:
>
> Add (also to the README) a comment about adding
> -w "öÖäÄüÜß"
> to the cmdline of ispell and it works.
>
> My .emacs now contains:
> (custom-set-variables
> '(ispell-local-dictionary-alist (quote (("american8" "[A-ZÄÖÜäöüß]"
> "[^A-ZÄÖÜäöüß]" "[']" nil
> ("-B" "-d" "american" "-w" "öÖäÄüÜß") "~latin1" iso-8859-1)))))
>
> which works perfectly also with files containing "Gödel".
Fine, thanks for the suggestion. And even better, octal codes seem to work
too (avoiding things be accidentally saved as utf-8) and to make things even
better aspell does not (currently) complain about the -w option.
> I would say that a slight adjustment in the README should be
> enough to close the bug.
Committed to our CVS, will go in next upload.
Thanks a lot for your feedback
--
Agustin
