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

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Martin Swift wrote:

> Sorry, didn't read this this email when it came in. I thought it was
> just a duplicate from the CC: field.
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:34:29PM -0700, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Attached.
>
> Indeed, encoding is set to utf-8, but does that have anything to do
> with the word lists?
>
> Just in case it helps, /etc/aspell/aspell.conf has only a single line:
>
>  encoding utf-8

That did it.  Aspell ignores the locale settings when creating word lists 
but it doesn't ignore the config files.  I need to fix this some how.  But
I don't know how best to do it.   For now try setting this in your 
environment before compiling the word lists

   ASPELL_CONF="conf /dev/null"