Re: Fontsets and ispell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.02.2005 um 02:29 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> At first, are you sure that you are using ispell.el
> distributed with CVS emacs?

Yes, I am. The header says:

;; Author:           Ken Stevens <address@hidden>
;; Maintainer:       Ken Stevens <address@hidden>
;; Stevens Mod Date: Mon Jan  7 12:32:44 PST 2003
;; Stevens Revision: 3.6
;; Status          : Release with 3.1.12+ and 3.2.0+ ispell.
;; Bug Reports     : address@hidden
;; Web Site        : http://kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html
;; Keywords: unix wp

> Next, \x8e9 is a latin-1 character e-acute (latin-1 code is
> \351).

Yes, true. But why is GNU Emacs passing a character in that hex Unicode 
notation? Why can't it be the character it self as Carbon Emacs of the 
same src files does?

> Are you sure that your "german" dictionally
> recognizes that character as word constituent?

Yes, it does! I can enter (French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish) 
words with accented characters into my personal dictionary and in 
Carbon Emacs, from the same source, they're correctly recognized.

>   At least, ispell.el in Emacs doesn't include that character in
> CASECHARS.  Isn't there any good reason for not including it?

I am using them. Ispell can handle them, AFAIR. I don't write usually 
in US-ASCII 7bit. And since I use a modern TeX system I can type all 
characters as themselves, for example as UTF-8 in the file on disk, and 
this UTF-8 contents is then correctly processed in TeX. Usually the 
Latin-1 or Latin-9 subsets are sufficient for me right now, but I could 
start to write in Greek too: εὕρηκα. That's what our good old 
Archimedes once shouted and would like to shout myself when GNU Emacs 
22 will do what I expect it to do.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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