emacs21: *spell word-separation not 8-bit safe with Latin-9

emacs21: *spell word-separation not 8-bit safe with Latin-9

[Mathieu Roy]

Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

Apparently this bug  (debian #130397) did not get any reply in a delay
more important than a year. But this is a an important bug for people
using accentued characters.

I personally use LANG="fr_FR@euro"

This problem does not only apply to ispell but also to aspell.

And finally, it's confirmed that the issue is emacs specific (but the
fact it applies to both ispell and aspell is explicit):

echo "déplorable déplorablle" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.3)
*
& déplorablle 6 11: déplorable, déplorables, déplorasse, déplorâmes,
déplorâtes, déplorasses

As you can see, "déplorable" perfectly pass the test, and
"déplorablle" is correctly identified.


This bug #130397 should maybe be forwarded to emacs mainstream
authors. For that reason, I added bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org in Cc.


More details:
M-x debian-bug-web-bug -> 130397


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux dionysos 2.4.21-pre7-ac2 #1 lun avr 21 14:52:29 CEST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages emacs21 depends on:
ii  dpkg           1.10.9         Package maintenance system for Debian
ii  emacsen-common 1.4.15         Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii  libc6          2.3.1-16       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libjpeg62      6b-7           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime li
ii  liblockfile1   1.03           NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfi
ii  libncurses5    5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libpng2        1.0.12-8       PNG library - runtime
ii  libtiff3g      3.5.7-2        Tag Image File Format library
ii  xaw3dg         1.5-23         Xaw3d widget set
ii  xlibs          4.3.0-0ds2.0.0 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g         1.1.4-11       compression library - runtime

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