Hello I'll update this. Thanks.
Regards, // Ola On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:44:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Package: imp4 > Version: 4.0.2-2 > Severity: minor > > The README.Debian contains the following snippet: > > The differences between ispell and aspell are subtle but important. > The author of ispell writes: > > [Aspell's] primary advantage is that it is better at making > suggestions when a word is seriously misspelled. For example, > when given "trubble", ispell will suggest only "rubble", where > aspell suggests "trouble" (as its first choice) as well as > "dribble", "rubble", and a lot of other words. Its disadvantage > is that the approximate-matching algorithm is specific to English. > > That "disadvantage" is false (it may have been the case many years ago, > but not now). See for example > http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html#Phonetic-Code. In fact, > aspell is superior to ispell is almost every aspect. > > Quoting the Aspell author: > > The only major area where Ispell is superior to Aspell is in the > handling of multi character letters such as old ASCII encoding of > accented characters. However, Aspell can handle UTF-8 documents far > better than Ispell can. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.4 > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
