Re: textmodes/ispell.el: aspell does not support utf-8

[Magnus Henoch]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> since 2005-05-07, textmodes/ispell.el sets `ispell-program-name'
> to aspell if found. This is a problem when using an utf-8 locale,
> since aspell does not support utf-8.

More specifically, aspell < 0.60 does not support utf-8.

> A solution would be to use ispell in any case when
> `default-buffer-file-coding-system' is set to mule-utf-8.

A better solution might be to extend ispell-check-version to check
aspell's version as well (right now it only checks whether ispell is
really aspell), and modify the default value of ispell-program-name to
use aspell only if it is >= 0.60.  But doing it in the
straightforward way would involve a forward reference to
ispell-check-version from ispell-program-name...

Magnus