[UTF-8] Aspell and UTF-8/Unicode

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> 
> I am not a member of the utf-8 list so you need to CC me.  I found you 
> email in the archive.
> 
> > Almost
> > every language I know about in the parts of the word I live in, need
> > UTF-8 support, since no standard 8-bit character set exists for them
> 
> Does the number of characters exceed 128? 256?  If it fits in 8-bits than 
> you can just make up a character set as it is only used internally.   With 
> Aspell 0.50 this may be a bit of a pain, but with Aspell 0.51 it should be 
> easier as all input and output can be utf-8.

I should also add that with Aspell 0.50 you can't use all 256 characters.  
You are limited to the upper 128.  With Aspell 0.51 this will change, I
hope, since the internal encoding will never be visible out side of the
Speller module.

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