Re: [Aspell-user] Problems with Arabic.

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Mohammed Sameer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've created a simple wordlist for Arabic.
> It contains +40,000 just to test aspell and Arabic.
>
> Looks like everything is fine with aspell from the command line, But 
> when using abiword or any other graphical tools to generate the 
> suggestions, I find that the suggestions are Latin letters not Arabic 
> words.
>
> I had to encode the files in ISO 8859-6 as aspell didn't accept UTF-8 
> for the data files. I think this might be the source of the problem but 
> I can't be sure.
>
> Now my question is: How can I force the output from libaspell to be 
> UTF-8 ? I tried the "data-encoding utf-8" in the ar.dat file but it 
> didn't work.

You can't really "force" Aspell to output UTF-8.  Aspell will output what 
every encoding the application ask it to.  if it ask's for "utf-8" it will 
get it.

What encoding is your word list in you used to generate the dictionary? 
It needs to be in the same encoding the "data-encoding" is in.  It can be 
ISO 8859-6 and Aspell will still output UTF-8 when an application asks for 
it as Aspell will convert the output to UTF-8.