From 83e21d122bb2f45f5473d76097488c755afe1e99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:42:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Importing NanoBlogger post "Emacs and aspell/spelling II" --- posts/Emacs_and_aspell/spelling_II.mdwn | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/Emacs_and_aspell/spelling_II.mdwn diff --git a/posts/Emacs_and_aspell/spelling_II.mdwn b/posts/Emacs_and_aspell/spelling_II.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67c2145 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Emacs_and_aspell/spelling_II.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!meta title="Emacs and aspell/spelling II"]] +[[!meta date="2008-09-05 02:42:26"]] +Update on [my earlier +post](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/blog/archives/2008/08/28/index.html#e2008-08-28T02_45_54.txt). +It seems that there are bugs running aspell on UTF-8 code via ispell.el. + +For example, with the configuration I listed in my first post, running +`M-x ispell` on a buffer containing + + Grüß Gott <- misspelled English with UTF-8 chars + “aBx” <- misspelled English inside UTF-8 quotes + +produced an error + + Ispell misalignment: word `BaBx' point 58; probably incompatible versions + +when aspell caught on “aBx”. + +This seems to have been a problem for a while ([2003 bug +report](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205516) and a +[possible 2005 +patch](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945391&group_id=245&atid=300245) +against the +[2003 ispell.el-3.7beta](http://www.kdstevens.com/stevens/ispell-page.html)), +but I don't know enough about emacs to want to go that deep. For now +I will just run `aspell -v ` from another terminal and +revisit the file from emacs afterwards, or I will highlight non-UTF-8 +areas and `ispell` them seperately. + +[[!tag linux]] -- 2.26.2