Re: [help] French dicts for ispell

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Nicolas Sabouret wrote:
> Hi,

Hi, Nico

> I put in test.txt the words:
> coeur c?ur oeuvre ?uvre
> 
> "ispell test.txt" works as supposed to : coeur and oeuvre are detected 
> as errors. However, ispell does not suggest the latin0 version. My 1st 
> question is : is there a way to tell ispell that oe is often an 
> ill-typed ? ?
>

I think ispell has all that stuff hardcoded, while aspell has some language
dependent phonetic code for that purpose that is configurable, and also
myspell, although it calls that replacements
 
> "ispell -T latin1 test.txt" does not work as supposed : coeur and oeuvre 
> are rejected while c?ur and ?uvre are accepted. Why ?
> 

May be is a problem of encodings at my site (plain latin1), but in the latin1
section I see (½ is the oe in one letter)

altstringchar	½		½

while you probably want something like

altstringchar	oe		½

and the equivalent for uppercase OE.

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin