Re: [Fwd]: [Aspell-user] Aspell Status Update as of February 12, 2004

Kevin Atkinson said on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:39:29PM -0500,:

 > > Aspell DOES support Unicode in most places.  The only place it does not is 
 > > when it is used as an independent spell checker, and the only reason for 
 > > that is I don't know how to use Unicode with curses properly.
 > 
 > OK.  After a little research I discovered that Malayalam is a language and 
 > not a program.  Than in that case things are more complicated.  Aspell is 
 > 8-bit internally and always will be.  BUT that should not be a problem as 
 > the Malayalam script can fit inside an 8 bit character set.  If there is 
 > not an existing 8 bit character set, make one up, it is only used 
 > internally.

Kevin, can you check:-

 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/BadSoftware

It says:-

   "GNU Aspell:  doesn't support  UTF-8 at this  time; it's  in ToDo
   though (check  the main  page), but without  concrete plan  or work
   going on."
 
I hope that  somebody on the gnu-ml list might  get interested and try
to fix it.

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