Re: Bug 130397 (Was: Emacs - Ispell problem with i[no]german dictionary)

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <20050111195623.GA4031@agmartin.aq.upm.es>, Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es> writes:
> I meant with oe-1char oe as a single char (U+0153), available
> in iso-8859-15 (octal \275 here), but not in iso-8859-1 (you
> have one half instead), and with oe-2char the two 7bit chars sequence
> 'oe', available anywhere, and that is the trick usually used in
> iso-8859-1 to represent that char.

Ah, I see.

> I like the idea, and at a first glance it should not be difficult to
> implement, even for a person like me, whose lisp skills are limited. It will
> help for old emacs21, for emacs20 my workaround will do nothing since it has
> no iso-8859-15, and for Debian xemacs21 my workaround is also doing nothing
> since xemacs21 seems to return some extra (IMHO wrong) stuff in
> buffer-file-coding-system.

> I will first retest everything with a 'good' (built to my taste) french
> dict, pen and paper, to know in detail the differences in the results for
> both systems. Last day I could notice that the misalignment error
> disappeared and that things worked better, but not much more. Need to test
> also with aspell and other languages.

> Even in the case both systems give mostly similar results I will try
> integrating them, since I guess your patch will be more appropriate for
> future emacs21 development, and looks somewhat more general. 

How are ispell.el of Emacs and that of dictionaries-common
maintained?  Are they synched somehow?  Should I install my
patch for CVS Emacs.  Or, is it better to wait for you or
some other maintainer work on it?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org