Re: Spelling of non-ascii characters

Mads Ipsen <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:19:37 +0200
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Kevin Atkinson wrote:
| On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Mads Ipsen wrote:
|
|> 1. Create extra (supplemental) dictionary:
|>
|> ~  aspell --lang=en create master ./wordlist.bin < wordlist.txt
|>
|> where wordlist.txt in an ordinary ascii (text) file. If wordlist.txt
|> contains the word "Ångström", the above command generates the warning:
|>
|> ~  Warning: The word "Ã?ngstrÃ¶m" is invalid. The character '?' (U+85)
|> may not appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word.
|
| It looks like you are giving it UTF-8 encoded input, while Aspell
| expects iso-8859-1.  Adding "--encoding=utf-8" so that you have:
|
| aspell --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 create master ./wordlist.bin <
| wordlist.txt
|
| Should fix the problem.

It sure did - thanks a lot for helping out!

Best regards, Mads


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