> Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: > > Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the > > only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support > > for pseudocharsets like 'a, "a, \'a, ... ) is already included in aspell > > development version, so at that time we can drop ispell without any loss > > of features. Not sure about hunspell here. > > What tools are using such pseudo characters, probably because they do not > support 8bit character sets? Can't they be fixed to do so? > AFAIK, even latex knows the existence of the 8th bit, nowadays. > Yes, LaTeX does fully support this, but portability of plain files across systems remains an issue and many people thus still prefer to encode umlauts this way. For example, we often share files between Linux, Windows, OS X client. In such situations, 8bit is still horribly unreliable. In theory, of course all of them support 8bit. Best, Michael
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