Re: [Aspell-user] Special characters in a custom dictionary will break the spell check.

[Stanislas Rolland]

Hi Kevin,
> Exactly what command are you using to add a word to the personal
> dictionary? They are multiple ways to add a word list to the personal
> dictionary.
The command was:
cat '/home/.../someTempFile' | /usr/bin/aspell -a --mode=none 
--home-dir='/home/.../directoryOfPersonalDictionary' --lang='en' 
--encoding='utf-8'
> > The word is utf-8-encoded into a file that is piped to the Aspell
> > command. The command includes the --encoding='utf-8' option. The
> > personal dictionary file also specifies utf-8 as encoding, and if I
> > add the word manually to this dictionary, it is correctly taken into
> > account when spell checking is done.
>
> Sorry missed that the first time around.
>
> > I can't find any Aspell command that would allow to retrieve the
> > character set of the main dictionary, and perhaps convert the input
> > into that character set before submitting it to Aspell.
>
> Use "aspell config data-dir" and then look for the language date file
> named <lang tag>.dat.  For example, english will be "en.dat".

This is exactly what I did to work around this issue:
- before submitting additions to the personal word list or to the 
personal replacement pairs, access the main dictionary currently in use 
and retrieve the encoding specified in the file;
- convert the additions to the personal word list or to the personal 
replacement pairs to the encoding of the main dictionary;
- specify this encoding in the Aspell command, rather than utf-8.

The above will work only if the personal dictionaries are utf-8-encoded. 
If not, Aspell will complain against invalid characters in the personal 
dictionaries when spell checking is done. Therefore, before submitting 
any request to Aspell, read the personal dictionary files and ensure 
that the encoding option is set to utf-8. If not, set the option to 
utf-8 and update the files.

(Ref: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/38653)
> You can also just add words manually, I do not consider this a hack.
That is not really possible, as the system may be used by hundreds of users.

Regards,

Stanislas Rolland
TYPO3 Core Team Member

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