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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Elias Martenson wrote:

> It's great to hear that the Unicode support in aspell has been improved=
.
> =

> I have a suggestion for you, (and I need the others on this mailing lis=
t
> to comment as well). Shouldn't aspell perform decomposition according t=
o
> decomposition form D? Otherwise aspell will fail to spell check certain=

> words. Consider, for example the swdish word =22m=C3=A5l=22. The =22=C3=
=A5=22 can be
> represented by either:
> =

>     U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
> =

> or
> =

>     U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A + U+030A COMBINING RING ABOVE
> =

> By performing decomposition first, aspell will be guaranteed to always
> receive the second form, and there won't be any problem.

I have added it to the Aspell's To Do list under =22Things I would like t=
o =

get done=22

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