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Re: Ispell possibly broken in latest Debian/Ubuntu?


Good afternoon, Paul...

On Saturday 07 January 2006 07:59 am, you wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:27:35 -0800, Dave Laird <dlaird@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > Then I guess it evals OK.  Now can you turn on flyspell mode?
> >
> > Then I get the UTF-8 string not found error.
>
> Do you mean the "Invalid UTF-8 encoded string" error?  That's
> caused by the default value of Ispell_Chars in ispell_init, which has
> latin1 characters in it.  I should probably replace it with
>
> public variable Ispell_Letters = Assoc_Type[String_Type, "a-zA-Z"];
>
> I don't have an ispell or aspell that understands utf-8, but ispell.sl
> should probably work in utf-8 mode with just ascii characters, at least
> for English.

I replaced the existing "public variable Ispell_Letters" line with the
public variable above, and Ispell started working like a clock. The only
other rough edges are that once you highlight a word that is identified by
Ispell as not correct, the only options at the bottom of the page (the
mini-buffer?) are:

Enter choice. (^G to abort) (default: 0)

There is nothing about accepting the word this time or the means to
install the word into one's personal dictionary. I also noticed in
ispell_init, it creates a variable for Ispell. What happens if we change
that to read Aspell? I suspect it will break something, but I am truly
curious now. I am actually getting to where I can read the code in the Jed
libs, which is even more scary than the dictionary not working. 8-) 

Dave
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