Re: emacs and word processing

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net> writes:

> (1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with
> ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit
> characters. Same problem with running ispell from the command line,
> but I can't find anything in the docs (only an option to force 7-bit,
> which is not quite what I'm looking for). So how do I make ispell
> process 8-bit input?

For spellchecking german you should have
  (setq ispell-dictionary "deutsch8")
in your .emacs (don't know about other languages.

You should ask about your other questions in the appropriate
newgroups.

Greetings,
joachim