[Aspell-user] How can I get Aspell to *corrupt* a UTF-8 encoded file? :-)

[James J. Ramsey]

I've been trying to find out how gracefully Aspell
doesn't handle UTF-8, so I can figure out whether it's
safe to use with something like nxml-mode in Emacs,
which seems to be biased toward using UTF-8 for
special characters like accented letters, quotes, and
em-dashes. 
I haven't seen it "eat" UTF-8 encoded files when it's
been used with GEdit or Bluefish, and when I tried to
get it to do Bad Things(TM) by using it directly, it
didn't work. There were, of course, display problems
with the curses interface, but I haven't gotten it to
corrupt anything.

Why is this? Is it dumb luck? Or is there something in
Aspell or in the lower level libraries on which it
depends, like glibc, that allows it to just skip over
the UTF-8 bits?


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