From: Raphael Finkel (raphael@cs.uky.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 14:11:03 EST
Unfortunately, Aspell does not support Unicode, so far as I can tell.
I grabbed aspell-0.50.3, and it still has utf-8 support on the todo list.
Aspell seems to supersede pspell which supersedes ispell; I don't know of any
spell checker (except for my own, which doesn't generate suggestion lists) that
handles utf-8.
My Yiddish ispell dictionary is usable, but it never suggests removing a letter
or adding a letter (that's a two-byte change!), and it can't be set to ignore
Yiddish open and close quotes, because their first byte in UTF-8 looks just
like the first byte of many other letters.
By the way, I don't see my Yiddish dictionary on the download page for AbiWord
internationalizations; it should be placed there, even though ispell's ability
to manipulate it is substandard. At least it generally shows what words are
misspelled.
Raphael
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