Re: [Aspell-user] Aspell removes some Polish characters if language is non-PL

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Przemys?aw 'Przemoc' Pawe?czyk wrote:

> > For the English language do this....
>
> Yes! Now it works as expected:
>
> Polish characters can be found in ISO-8859-2 character set. It was
> widely used in pre-UTF8 days (and still is in many places).
> Changing ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-2 instead of ISO-8859-1-U would also
> work? Or there are some other dependencies behind the scene?

The word list is encoded in iso-8859-1, changing the charset to iso-8859-2 
will cause the word list to be in interpreted as iso-8859-2 which will 
be incorrect for non-ASCII characters.  iso-8859-1-u in backwards compatible 
with iso-8859-1 as it only adds characters to the unused control blocks.

> I don't like messing with existing packages, so... I won't install it. :)
>
> > For other languages do a similar thing.
> >
> > For more info in the expanded character set see "B.1.1 Notes on Latin
> > Languages" in the manual (http://aspell.net/man-html/Supported.html) and the
> > README in aspell-lang.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. I fervently encourage you to put
> this solution also in bug tracker.

I will add a link and close the bug.