Re: [aspell-devel] pipe mode with accented characters

[Lars Aronsson]

David Garrard wrote:
> I am using Aspell 0.50.3 on Windows using the pipe mode on Win NT 4.0 with
> regional settings English (United States):
>
> aspell --lang=sv -a
>
> If I install the Swedish language dictionary, all is well, but I don't know
> if I have to pre-condition the words I wish to test:
>
> mjölk
>
> which on my english keyboard is mj alt-0246 lk, returns the following
> result:

I don't know Windows NT 4.0 (or Windows, for that matter), but 0246
looks like an octal number to me.  246 is the decimal position of ö
in the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character code.  It's octal number is
0366, and hexadecimal 0xf6.

However, the output from your "mjolk" attempt suggests that you are
using another charachter set than ISO Latin-1.

> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.3)
> & mjolk 9 0: mjˆlk, mjˆlka, mjˆlke, mjˆlks, mjˆl, mjˆls, moll, holk, mol
>
> where the first returned word 'mjˆlk' is in fact mjölk so obviously mjölk is
> in the dictionary.

Sooner or later we should all switch to Unicode, but for now you
should make sure you use ISO 8859-1 with the Swedish dictionary
for Aspell 0.50.3.


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