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

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

> 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.

The lattest Aspell 0.51 snapshot is able to support utf-8 in most places.  
>From the ChangeLog:

   * Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in
     UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses.
     Aspell can now support any language that no more than 220 distinct
     characters, including different capitalizations and accents, _even
     if_ there is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the
     language.

See the manual (http://aspell.net/devel-doc/man/) for more info.  I look 
forward to hearing back from you.

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