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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Elias Martenson wrote:

> s=C3=B6n 2004-02-15 klockan 10.54 skrev Kevin Atkinson:
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> >    The bottom line is that keeping Aspell 8-bit internally is a very
> > well though out decision that is not likely to change any time soon.
> > Fell free to challenge me on it, but, don't expect me to change my mi=
nd
> > unless you can bring up some point that I have not thought of before
> > and quite possible a patch to solve cleanly convert Aspell to Unicode=

> > internally with out a serious performance lost OR serious memory usag=
e
> > increase.
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> Thanks for the explanation. I only have one question regarding the abov=
e
> quoted section:
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> How do you intend to deal with asian languages? I just cannot understan=
d
> how you handle Japanese, based on the explanation you just gave.

Can Japanese be spell checked in the traditional fashion, or at all?

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