Spell check problem (was: Re: What is a KDE app (was Re: Image viewer for KDE4 (Re: KView for KDE4? )))

On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:29, Heiko Evermann wrote:

Bringing the discussion to the right mailing list. :-)

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Some bad news:
>
> The word with umlaut is handed over to kspell correctly.
> When I get the misspelled-info back, the original word is cut directly
> before the umlaut. Therefore it is not found.
> When I try the same text in the spell checker dialog (instead of just with
> the spell highlight), I get the message
> "There seems to be an  error with the synchronization  of the spell
> checking process and KBabel."
>
> My guess is that the error happens in the dump command line call of aspell
> that KSpell is using.

I will have ask the question that should have asked since the start. What is 
your spellcheck setting in KBabel, especially what encoding have you 
selected?

>

> Has anyone so far considered porting KBabel to KSpell2? KSpell2 uses the

The problem is probably that somebody must take time to implement it.

> spell checkers via a library. That seems to be a better approach.

But KWord has similar bugs too, so it is not the ultimate fix either. :-(

>
> What do You think about that?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heiko

Have a nice day!