Re: Invaled generated charcters by aspell dump

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Ahmad El-Gazzaz wrote:

> When I open the file I see about three Arabic letters repeated a lot, along 
> with valid English characters and invalid characters(the default encoding is 
> cp1256). Then I change the encoding of kwrite to utf-8 and I see readable 
> Arabic words, English characters and invalid characters.

I think what you are seeing are the affix flag characters.  You need to 
expand the word list as so:
    aspell dump master ar | aspell expand --lang=ar | tr ' ' '\n'
note that this will create a VERY large file.  For aspell6-ar it is 492M.