Re: Special characters in a custom dictionary will break the spell check.

Hi Kevin,

>>>
>>>> I am encountering this same problem: trying to add a word that
>>>> contains a special character into a personal dictionary gives an error
>>>> like:
>>>>
>>>> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.3)
>>>> Error: The word "erf?rt" is invalid. The character '?' (U+3F) may not
>>>> appear in the middle of a word.
>>>>
>>>> The word is utf-8-encoded into a file that is piped to the Aspell
>>>> command. The command includes the --encoding='utf-8' option. The
>>>> personal dictionary file also specifies utf-8 as encoding, and if I
>>>> add the word manually to this dictionary, it is correctly taken into
>>>> account when spell checking is done.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently, Aspell ignores the option specifying the encoding of the
>>>> input, and assumes that it is encoded  in the same character set as
>>>> the main dictionary.
>>>
>>> I don't think that is the issue.  The issue is that the Aspell is 8-bit
>>> internally and the personal dictionary needs to get mapped to the same
>>> character set that the main dictionary uses.  The '?' means that the
>>> Unicode character was not available in the main dictionary character set
>>> and it thus defaulted to a '?'.
>>>
>> But, if I am using a dictionary for Spanish and try to add to a
>> personal dictionary a word that contains the character ó,  which is
>> very common in Spanish, I get this same message. Obviously it is very
>> simple to convert this character from utf-8 to iso-8859-1, the latter
>> being apparently used by the Spanish dictionary...
>
> If that is really the case then it could be a bug.  It would likely be
> best to file a bug report and I will look into it when I get chance.  In
> the report be sure and include a sample personal dictionary that is not
> working as intended and mention what dictionary you are using.
>
I will.

> As a workaround for now, you can convert utf-8 to iso-8859-1 using
> "aspell conv utf-8 iso-8859-1".

This is basically what I did. But then, I have first to access the 
dictionary to know what encoding Aspell wants me to use.

Regards,

Stanislas Rolland
TYPO3 Core Team Member

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