Re: [Aspell-user] Special characters in a custom dictionary will break the spell check.

[Stanislas Rolland]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your answer.
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Stanislas Rolland wrote:
>
> > I am encountering this same problem: trying to add a word that
> > contains a special character into a personal dictionary gives an error
> > like:
> >
> > @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.3)
> > Error: The word "erf?rt" is invalid. The character '?' (U+3F) may not
> > appear in the middle of a word.
> >
> > The word is utf-8-encoded into a file that is piped to the Aspell
> > command. The command includes the --encoding='utf-8' option. The
> > personal dictionary file also specifies utf-8 as encoding, and if I
> > add the word manually to this dictionary, it is correctly taken into
> > account when spell checking is done.
> >
> > Apparently, Aspell ignores the option specifying the encoding of the
> > input, and assumes that it is encoded  in the same character set as
> > the main dictionary.
>
> I don't think that is the issue.  The issue is that the Aspell is 8-bit
> internally and the personal dictionary needs to get mapped to the same
> character set that the main dictionary uses.  The '?' means that the
> Unicode character was not available in the main dictionary character set
> and it thus defaulted to a '?'.
But, if I am using a dictionary for Spanish and try to add to a personal
dictionary a word that contains the character ó,  which is very common
in Spanish, I get this same message. Obviously it is very simple to
convert this character from utf-8 to iso-8859-1, the latter being
apparently used by the Spanish dictionary...

Stanislas Rolland
TYPO3 Core Team Member

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