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

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Martin Swift wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:29:15AM -0700, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> The word list is likely in iso-8859-1 but Aspell expects it in utf-8.

> Does this mean that aspell expects the word lists to have the same
> charset as the machine? Isn't that a little odd?

I don't understand the question.

> de.dat sets 'charset' as iso-8859-1:
>
>  # cat de.dat
>  # Generated with Aspell Dicts "proc" script version 0.50.1
>  name de
>  charset iso-8859-1
>  soundslike de
>  affix      de
>
> Does aspell not use this to determine the charset? If not, /shouldn't/
> it?

Yes it should.

> I just tried
>
>  /usr/bin/prezip-bin -d < de-common.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell --lang=de create --encoding=iso8859-1 master ./de-common.rws

Something is wrong.   The "--encoding=iso8859-1" should not be necessary. 
It should be using the value from "charset" in "de.dat".  Try setting your 
locale to "C" and see if it makes a difference.

> A couple of questions:
>
>  Is this going to conflict with my machines character encoding, or
> has aspell created an rws file for a utf-8 system?

No.  Aspell will convert between encoding as necessary.

>  Is the machine character encoding check a feature? It really seems
> that since one might attemp to install the same wordlist on machines
> with different character encodings that this is prone to failure.

Hu?