Re: Spellchecking Indian language documents

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Gora Mohanty wrote:

> Hi,
>   As I still cannot find a front-end that supports
> aspell 0.6, and displays Indic characters correctly,
> I started writing a Python front-end, using Pango to
> display Indian language text.
>   The initial tests in grafting a Python interface
> to the C API using SWIG look good. However, I am
> confused about something simple in spellchecking 
> Oriya text. When using aspell_speller_check() from
> the C API, it seems that aspell does not automatically
> convert from UTF-8 to its internal format for Oriya
> (encoding u-orya), but leaves that up to the caller.
> Could someone confirm that this is indeed the case?

You need to make sure that the encoding is set to "utf-8".

Use: aspell_config_replace(..., "encoding", "utf-8")



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