[Aspell-user] western european languages

[bnj]

Hello,

I am having some problems with documents in French and in German: the 
special charachters like é à è ö ä ü do not seem to be supported by 
aspell. I have tried two different options:
1. write the characters as they are, encoded in latin-1.
2. write the LaTeX code (like \'e, \"u, ...)
None of these options gave a good result. At each time, aspell considers 
this special character as a separator between two words, such that a 
word like:

Fremdwörter

would become, for aspell, these two words:

Fremdw rter

Of course, none of them is german an aspell wants to correct them.

So what is your solution?

Thank you in advance,

Benjamin