Re: [aspell-devel] Aspell Now Has Full UTF-8 Support

[Mugunth]

Hi Kevin ,
Its a great news for Tamil users like me.

Is it possible to use aspell with Openoffice & Mozilla. ? Is it possible 
to make Myspell also to support utf-8 like aspell.

Regards,
Mugunth

Kevin Atkinson ????????:

> Aspell now fully supports spell checking documents in UTF-8.  In addition
> Aspell now has support for accepting all input and printing all output in
> UTF-8 or any other encoding that Aspell supports.  The fact that Aspell is
> still 8-bit internally can now be made completely transparent to the end
> user.  Previous versions of Aspel supported Unicode to some extent;
> however, word list still had to be in an 8-bit character set.  
> Furthermore, spell checking documents in an encoding that is different from
> the internal encoding was pragmatic.  This has all changed now.
>
> With this change 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.  All one has to do is creating a new character data file which
> is a fairly simple task.  The internal encoding never has to be seen by
> the end-user, including the word list author, since not even the word list
> has to be in the same encoding that Aspell uses.