Description of problem: /usr/share/info/aspell.info appears to have suffered from a UTF-8 to Windows-1252 character conversion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): x86_64 50:2018.04.16-4.fc31 How reproducible: Probably always, if the file in the repo is wrong. Steps to Reproduce: 1. gunzip -c /usr/share/info/aspell.info.gz | od -A x -t x1z -v | less Actual results: 000000 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 73 70 65 6c 6c 2e 69 >This is aspell.i< 000010 6e 66 6f 2c 20 70 72 6f 64 75 63 65 64 20 62 79 >nfo, produced by< 000020 20 6d 61 6b 65 69 6e 66 6f 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f > makeinfo versio< 000030 6e 20 35 2e 32 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 61 73 70 65 6c >n 5.2 from aspel< 000040 6c 2e 74 65 78 69 2e 0a 0a 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 >l.texi...This is< 000050 20 74 68 65 20 75 73 65 72 c3 a2 c2 80 c2 99 73 > the user......s< 000060 20 6d 61 6e 75 61 6c 20 66 6f 72 20 41 73 70 65 > manual for Aspe< 000070 6c 6c 0a 0a 47 4e 55 20 41 73 70 65 6c 6c 20 69 >ll..GNU Aspell i< 000080 73 20 61 20 73 70 65 6c 6c 20 63 68 65 63 6b 65 >s a spell checke< 000090 72 20 64 65 73 69 67 6e 65 64 20 74 6f 20 65 76 >r designed to ev< 0000a0 65 6e 74 75 61 6c 6c 79 20 72 65 70 6c 61 63 65 >entually replace< 0000b0 20 49 73 70 65 6c 6c 2e 20 20 49 74 0a 63 61 6e > Ispell. It.can< 0000c0 20 65 69 74 68 65 72 20 62 65 20 75 73 65 64 20 > either be used < 0000d0 61 73 20 61 20 6c 69 62 72 61 72 79 20 6f 72 20 >as a library or < 0000e0 61 73 20 61 6e 20 69 6e 64 65 70 65 6e 64 65 6e >as an independen< 0000f0 74 20 73 70 65 6c 6c 20 63 68 65 63 6b 65 72 2e >t spell checker.< 000100 0a 0a 43 6f 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 20 c3 82 c5 a0 >..Copyright ....< 000110 20 32 30 30 30 c3 a2 c2 80 c2 93 32 30 31 39 20 > 2000......2019 < 000120 4b 65 76 69 6e 20 41 74 6b 69 6e 73 6f 6e 2e 0a >Kevin Atkinson..< Note the line starting at 000050: the apostrophe in "the user's" is encoded as c3a2 c280 c299. Expected results: The proper UTF-8 sequence for an apostrophe is E280. Similar issues are all through the file: note the copyright symbol at offset 10c. Additional info: * I installed aspell using dnf, so this is directly from the repository * I haven't checked to see if this is an issue in Fedora 32
Nearly three months and not a peep out of the bug team. I'm bumping up the priority in the hopes someone will at least look into this and respond.
I just checked Fedora 32 and this bug is present there also. I've updated the "version" tag on this bug to 32.
still here in aspell-0.60.8-5.fc33.x86_64
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Still present as of: $ rpm -q $(rpm -qf $(info -w aspell)) aspell-0.60.8-11.fc38.x86_64
As aspell has been deprecated since Fedora 39 (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation), we don't plan to fix this bug.