UTF-8 and ispell

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* G. Milde <milde at users.sourceforge.net> [2007-09-19 16:20]:

> On 19.09.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > We should find a way to initialize the dictionaries with proper
> > arguments.  
> 
> Maybe reconfiguring dictionaries-common after the switch to UTF8 helps?

No, it is not enough (see below).

> 
> > My first question is: how to detect in a S-Lang script whether
> > jed is running in a UTF-8 environment?
> 
>    if (_slang_utf8_ok)
> 
> You might try
> 
>    % convert encoding
>    if (_slang_utf8_ok)
>      latin1_to_utf8();
> 
> with latin1_to_utf8 from jedmodes.sf.net/mode/utf8helper/ but I assume that
> the proper fix would be change the template generating jed-ispell-dicts to
> use utf8-encoded dictionaries instead of the latin1 ones if
> (_slang_utf8_ok).

Thanks for the info.  I will change the script in dictionaries-common that
generates the jed-ispell-dicts.sl file.

-- 
Rafael