[[!meta  title="Emacs and aspell/spelling II"]]
[[!meta  date="2008-09-05 02:42:26"]]

Update on [[my earlier post|Emacs_and_aspell_spelling]].  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][bug]
and a [possible 2005 patch][patch] against the [2003
ispell.el-3.7beta][beta]), but I don't know enough about emacs to want
to go that deep.  For now I will just run `aspell -v <my-file>` from
another terminal and revisit the file from emacs afterwards, or I will
highlight non-UTF-8 areas and `ispell` them seperately.

[bug]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205516
[patch]: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945391&group_id=245&atid=300245
[beta]: http://www.kdstevens.com/stevens/ispell-page.html

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