Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.24.10 Severity: important Since the current version of dictionaries-common and aspell-0.60, spell checking in Emacs using aspell no longer works properly for me.
A bit of background: I use accented characters in my British English words (as does the Oxford English Dictionary). Having looked over the new version of dictionaries-common, it seems what I need to do is add an entry to ispell-local-dictionary-alist. I erased my previous customisation of ispell-dictionary-alist, added one for ispell-local-dictionary-alist, and added accented letters to the case and non-case character classes. But words like "rÃle" (r-ocircumflex-l-e) still get mangled: aspell flags up "le" as not a word, treating the à as not a letter. If I run the aspell command that emacs seems to be running, namely, /usr/bin/aspell -a -m -d en_GB on the same file, it doesn't complain (rÃle is in my personal wordlist; the file in question is UTF-8), so I'm not sure how Emacs is calling aspell differently (perhaps the file it passes is differently encoded?). I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Normally, I could get around this problem by running aspell outside Emacs, but in this case I'm editing Mac ASCII files, and am relying on Emacs to do all the right recoding so that aspell doesn't mind. It all worked fine with aspell-0.50... I do not have ispell installed; if I do apt-get install ibritish, then the command line above becomes: /usr/bin/aspell -a -m -B -d british but the results I have reported are the same (the command works outside Emacs, and spell checking doesn't work in Emacs). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: * dictionaries-common/default-ispell: british (British English) shared/packages-wordlist: * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: british (British English) shared/packages-ispell: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/languages: ~manual~ (I set symlinks manually) dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
