[PATCH] KSpell Unicode problem (BR#86940)

[Lukáš Tinkl]

Dne pá 18. února 2005 19:00 Mashrab Kuvatov napsal(a):
> Hi Lukáš,
>
> first of all thanks for looking at the issue. Waldo, thanks too.
>
> On Friday 18 February 2005 13:29, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > Hmmm, unfortunate situation... Mashrab's patch breaks with older aspells,
> > that's what I feared. Furthermore, KSpell+ASpell5 currently can't cope
> > with any utf8 text at all. Attached patch fixes that.
>
> To my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong) neither Aspel < 0.60 nor Ispell
> supports utf8 spellchecking, they treat input/output in 8-bit encoding.
> That's why, actually, I was surprised to see UTF-8 in a list of encodings
> of control center. One could argue that it is possible to pass
> --encoding=utf8 to Aspell-0.50, but from the documentation of Aspell-0.50
> [1]
> <quote>
> encoding
> (string) The encoding the input text is in. Valid values are ``utf-8'',
> ``iso8859-*'', ``koi8-r'', ``viscii'', ``cp1252'', ``machine unsigned 16'',
> ``machine unsigned 32''. However, the aspell utility will currently only
> function correctly with 8-bit encodings. I hope to provide utf-8 support in
> the future.
> </quote>
>
> What spellchecker are you using? If Ispell, are you sure it is not a
> wrapper around Aspell (some distros dropped Ispell)? If you do not have
> Aspell-0.60, how do you spellcheck utf8 texts (like you said Aspell-0.50
> cannot do that)?

lukas at goblin:~> aspell --version
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)

And yes, my aspell does support utf8 correctly, the comment is perhaps wrong 
and has probably been added in an earlier version; ispell doesn't seem to 
support utf8 at all. I said KSpell (with ASpell) couldn't check UTF-8 text.

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Lukáš Tinkl <lukas at kde.org>
KDE developer


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