Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Agustin Martin wrote:
> > IIRC, none of aspell or hunspell can handle pseudo-charsets like 'a or TeX
> > explicit chars \'a, \'{a}, while ispell can, if the aff file has them
> > declared, so there is no full replacement for ispell.
>
> [could probably sound harsh, but isn't ment as such] i suggest to
> discuss that (on dict-common-dev) after lenny has been released,
> if/how/when etc. a removal will happen (or not).
No problem, I did not considered it as harsh, and I am aware that decreasing
the number of spellchecking engines is something desirable.
Related to the above, I had in mind that something to deal with it was
intended in aspell. Looking again at the TODO list in the aspell www page,
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To Do
* Create a generic filter to handle multi-character letters such as "a or
\"a for ä. This filter should make use of the already exiting normalization
code if possible. [Done for Aspell 0.61]
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So we may safely drop ispell in the future (aspell 0.61 is only the
development version). To be discussed anyway in case something else is
missing.
Cheers,
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Agustin
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