Re: textmodes/ispell.el: aspell does not support utf-8

[Richard M. Stallman]

    A better solution might be to extend ispell-check-version to check
    aspell's version as well (right now it only checks whether ispell is
    really aspell), and modify the default value of ispell-program-name to
    use aspell only if it is >= 0.60.

This is one of those problems that should not be solved.  The right
thing to do here is to install a more recent aspell version.

I don't want to complicate the code in ispell.el to cater to old
aspell versions.  It would be a step for the worse.