Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 190151
Spell Checking in XEmacs broken for German Language
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:31 EST
Description of problem: XEmacs spell-checking for dictionary deusch8 broken. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs-21.4.19-4.fc5 xemacs-sumo-20051208-2 aspell-0.60.3-5 aspell-de-0.50-11.2.1 How reproducible: Spell check a word with german umlaut using the "deutsch8" dictionary Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start XEmacs, execute "ispell-change-dictionary deutsch8". 2. Enter a word with german umlaut, e.g. hämmert 3. Press M-$ to check it. Actual results: Error Message "ISpell and its process have different character maps." Expected results: Correct checking of the word Additional info: Obviously xemacs was broken by the newer aspell version. Older aspell versions always used iso-8859-1 communication, regardless of locale or coding-system of the buffer. The current version expects communication in the current locale, but xemacs tries latin1 communication. I fixed it, by makeing xemacs call "aspell --encoding=iso-8859-1" as a wordaround, but I think the right way would be to fix ispell.el.
Created attachment 128399 [details] Potential fixed ispell.el Reproduced. I'm considering applying the patch below to the next xemacs-sumo release for FC5+. Complete ispell.el replacement also attached, it'd be cool if you could test that (by dropping it to /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ispell/ or ~/.xemacs/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ispell) and let me know if it works for you. --- ispell.el~ 2005-10-16 19:47:08.000000000 +0300 +++ ispell.el 2006-04-29 22:42:03.000000000 +0300 @@ -2249,6 +2249,12 @@ (expand-file-name ispell-personal-dictionary))))) (setq args (append args ispell-extra-args)) + ;; Fix encoding with aspell >= 0.60 (and blindly assume it's >= 0.60 + ;; if it looks like aspell :P) + (when (string-match "^aspell" (file-name-nondirectory ispell-program-name))+ (add-to-list + 'args (concat "--encoding=" (symbol-name (ispell-get-coding-system))))) + (if ispell-async-processp (let ((process-connection-type ispell-use-ptys-p)) (apply 'start-process
Yes, that works for me. Thanks for the quick solution.
Fixed in 20060510-1.