[aspell] LaTeX and umlauts

[Enrico Scholz]

Hi,

I am writing german umlauts[1] by prefixing the corresponding 7bit
chars with a double-quote (e.g. "a, "o and "u). Unfortunately aspell
doesn't recognize " as a letter (entry in iso8859-1.dat) and the
available dictionaries are containing the umlauts as 8bit characters
only.

(The same thing happens when I write the umlauts as 'ae','oe'... in
german emails)


Well, I could create my own dictionary with quoted umlauts and saying "
is a letter, but this is just an ugly hack (I believe ispell recognizes
this encoding automatically).

Does there exists a more smart way to handle this issue?



Thanks ... Enrico

Footnotes: 
[1]  no, I can not simple type the 8bit umlauts because I am writing on
     an english keyboard...