[aspell] ANNOUNCE: Pspell .12

[Kevin Atkinson]

Pspell .12 is now available. Changes include: a new length parameter to
many Pspell functions, support for mapping the county code to a spelling
for the English language, a rewrite of the "Usage" section of the manual
to use the C interface instead of the C++ one, support for the iso-8859-13
and 14 character sets, the enabling of libltdl by default, a switch to the
the multi-language branch of libtool, and bug fixes including a nasty
memory leak.

Please note that, this version will unfortunately also break source-code
compatibility with Pspell .11 as I was saying for about two months
now. This is due to the fact the many of the PspellManager functions now
take in a length parameter. Fortunately, you can restore the old
behavior by simply defining the variable USE_ORIGINAL_MANAGER_FUNCS
before pspell.h is included. Please see the manual for more
info.

As always you can get it at the Pspell home page:
http://pspell.sourceforge.net/.

Full ChangeLog:

Changes from .11.2 to .12 (August 28, 2000)

  * Added a length parameter to many Pspell functions which should cut
    down on unnecessary copying of words with some programs that use
    Pspell. Unfortunately this also breaks sourcecode compatibility. But
    it is easy to fix, see section 2.3 for what to do.
  * Added support for mapping the county code to a spelling for the
    English language. For example the language tag ``en_GB'' will now get
    the British dictionary if it is available.
  * Rewrote the ``Usage'' section of the manual to use the C interface
    instead of the C++ one as I recommend using the C interface even in
    C++ code to avoid some of the nasty issues associated with C++
    linkage.
  * Libltdl is now enabled by default.
  * Switched to the multi-language branch of libtool.
  * Added support for iso-8859-13 and 14.
  * Fixed a memory leak in PspellStringMap which fixes a bug #126245
    reported for Aspell.
  * Bug fixes.

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Kevin Atkinson
kevina at users sourceforge net
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/