Re: [aspell-devel] Suggestion in Debian#900163: UTF-8 encoded personal word and replace files

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Agustin Martin wrote:

> https://bugs.debian.org/900163
>
>  The user personal word and replace files stored under
>  ~/.aspell.LL.prepl and ~/.aspell.LL.pws are encoded in what I presume
>  to be the locale legacy encoding? For example for the Catalan (ca),
>  Spanish (es) and English (en) personal files I've got locally, they
>  are encoded in ISO-8859.
>
>  It would be really nice if the contents could be stored encoded in
>  UTF-8 instead.

You can.  The default is specified in the language specification file.  You 
can use an alternative encoding on the file if you specify UTF-8 in the header 
line, see 
http://aspell.net/man-html/Format-of-the-Personal-and-Replacement-Dictionaries.html 
for the format.  Aspell should honer this encoding when modifying the file.

Kevin