1 [[!meta title="Emacs and aspell/spelling II"]]
2 [[!meta date="2008-09-05 02:42:26"]]
4 post](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/blog/archives/2008/08/28/index.html#e2008-08-28T02_45_54.txt).
5 It seems that there are bugs running aspell on UTF-8 code via ispell.el.
7 For example, with the configuration I listed in my first post, running
8 `M-x ispell` on a buffer containing
10 Grüß Gott <- misspelled English with UTF-8 chars
11 “aBx” <- misspelled English inside UTF-8 quotes
15 Ispell misalignment: word `BaBx' point 58; probably incompatible versions
17 when aspell caught on “aBx”.
19 This seems to have been a problem for a while ([2003 bug
20 report](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205516) and a
22 patch](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945391&group_id=245&atid=300245)
24 [2003 ispell.el-3.7beta](http://www.kdstevens.com/stevens/ispell-page.html)),
25 but I don't know enough about emacs to want to go that deep. For now
26 I will just run `aspell -v <my-file>` from another terminal and
27 revisit the file from emacs afterwards, or I will highlight non-UTF-8
28 areas and `ispell` them seperately.