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

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> 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.

Also, please do a "aspell dump config" and send the output as an 
attachment.  It could be that the encoding was being set to UTF-8 in a 
configuration file.