Re: [aspell-user] umlaute in LaTeX

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> is planned any support for german umlaute for latex files? it seems to be
> required in order to use new german rules.

If you mean something adding accent characters before are after words to
indicate accents than yes, but do you *really* want to use them.  Most
people these days use characters from the iso-8859-* character set (or
Unicode) for accents instead of putting accent characters before or after
ASCII letters.  However, if you must use the accent characters you Aspell
can support kind of support it by making it a middle character by adding
something like 'special " -*-' to the language data file.

A future version will support mapping them into there 8 bit equivalent and
also Unicode.