Kmail spell checker having problems with German Umlaut

[Nils Schlupp]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 10:07:49 Dan Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 18 May 2008, Nils Schlupp wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 May 2008 06:12:01 Dan Johansson wrote:
> > > I'm having a small problem with spell checking in kmail (v. 1.9.7, KDE
> > > 3.5.8). e.g. if a have the word beigefügte in a text, the spellchecker
> > > will treat it as two words, beigef and gte, which of course is not in
> > > the dictionary. Any suggestions how to solve this?
> >
> > Which backend are you using for spell checking? (aspell or ispell)
> > and which dicttionaries are installed?
>
> I'm using Aspell as backend
> $ aspell -v
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.5)
>
> And have the following dictionaries installed
> aspell-de
> aspell-en
> aspell-sv

Here, I think I found the issue. What is the encoding set to? Mine defaults to 
US-ASCII, which introduces these errors. Try switching to something like 
UTF-8, which fixed the problem in my case.

Nils
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