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

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:

> 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.

>From the TODO:

  Allow Aspell to check documents which are in UTF-8. I don't know the 
  proper way to use Unicode characters with the curses library, and I 
  can't seam to find any concrete documentation on how to do it. If you 
  have experience in this area I would really appreciate it if you could 
  enlighten me.

So if someone would enlighten me I would gladly implement it.

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