Re: Aspell uses a common English user dictionary for AE and BE

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Florian v. Savigny wrote:
>
>> I am a bit puzzled by aspell's behaviour regarding my personal
>> dictionary. I am using aspell through Emacs' user interface, which
>> passes it either "-d british", or "-d american", according to its own
>> documentation. While in itself, this does make the expected difference
>> (if I choose "british", spellings like "rationalise" will be OK; if I
>> choose "american", they will not), it seems to maintain only one
>> common English user dictionary (i.e. for both AE and BE). The latter
>> is called .aspell.en.pws and is updated with new words regardless of
>> whether I have chosen "british" or "american".
>
> Unfortunately this is a design choice I made that is not easy to fix. 
> Arguments can be made either way.  The basic problem is that while "british" 
> and "american" are separate dictionaries they are technically the same 
> language "en" as seen by Aspell and personal dictionaries names are based on 
> language, not the dictionary.  One think you can do is to explicitly set the 
> personal or "-d" config option. Like so
                ^^ that should be "-p", sorry
>  aspell -d british -p .aspell.en_GB.pws