Re: aspell-<LANG>: Invalid UTF-8 sequence at position...

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Martin Swift wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:56:49AM -0700, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> Can you please give me some more context.  Where/When do you get these
>> errors.
>
> Sorry.
>
> While compiling (Gentoo's emerge).
>
>   app-dicts/aspell-de-0.60_pre20030222  268 kB
>   app-dicts/aspell-is-0.51.1.0  317 kB
>
> Output:
>
>  >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-dicts/aspell-de-0.60_pre20030222 to /
>   * aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...        [ ok ]
>   * aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...     [ ok ]
>   * aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...       [ ok ]
>   * aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...     [ ok ]
>   * aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...       [ ok ]
>   * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                [ ok ]
>   * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...               [ ok ]
>   * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...              [ ok ]
>   * checking aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 ;-) ...   [ ok ]
>  >>> Unpacking source...
>  >>> Unpacking aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2 to
>  >>> /var/tmp/portage/app-dicts/aspell -de-0.60_pre20030222/work
>  >>> Source unpacked.
>  >>> Compiling source in
>  >>> /var/tmp/portage/app-dicts/aspell-de-0.60_pre20030222/work/aspell6-de-20030222-1 ...
>  Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell-0.60
>  Finding Data file location ... /usr/lib/aspell-0.60
>  /usr/bin/prezip-bin -d < de-common.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  --lang=de create master ./de-common.rws
>  /usr/bin/prezip-bin -d < de_AT-only.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  --lang=de create master ./de_AT-only.rws
>  Warning: The string "Abh<F6>rma<DF>nahme/N" is invalid. Invalid UTF-8 sequence at position 4. Skipping string.

The word list is likely in iso-8859-1 but Aspell expects it in utf-8. 
Your locale settings _should_ not have an effect here.  What does have an 
effect is the setting the the language data file "de.dat", in particular 
"data-encoding".  See
   http://aspell.net/man-html/The-Language-Data-File.html