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

[Putting [email protected] back on the list]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Martin Swift wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:37:24PM -0700, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>> 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"
>
> That environment variable didn't help, but temporarily moving the
> config file to a different name, did.

It should have.  I just tested it and it worked for me.

> As for fixing the problem; is there a reason why you can't just read
> the the *.dat file last and overwrite the previous settings?

It's probably not that simple.  I will need to study the problem more 
before I can answer that question.  I suggest you file a bug report.  I 
may also accept a patch but don't expect me to accept it until I have a 
chance to study the problem myself.

> Furthermore, should I notify the Gentoo packet maintainer, or do you
> reckon this will get fixed soon enough?

I don't know when I be able to fix it.  Hopefully within a month but no 
promises.