From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ispell and unibyte characters
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120410190803.GA13517@agmartin.aq.upm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120328191821.GA6266@agmartin.aq.upm.es>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:08:06PM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:39:12 +0200
> > > From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es>
> > >
> > > Hi Eli,
> >
> > Thanks for responding, I was beginning to think that no one is
> > interested. In general, I find that ispell.el is in sore need of
> > modernization; at least that's my conclusion so far from playing with
> > hunspell (with which I want to replace my aging collection of Ispell
> > and its dictionaries that I use for many years).
> >
> > > At least for aspell ispell.el already uses utf8 as default communication
> > > encoding and [:alpha:] as CASECHARS (and ^[:alpha:] as NOT-CASECHARS).
> > > OTHERCHARS is guessed from aspell .dat file for given dictionary.
> >
> > The question is, why isn't this done for any modern speller. The only
> > one I know of that cannot handle UTF-8 is Ispell.
>
> I think the only real remaining reason is for XEmacs compatibility. AFAIK
> XEmacs does not support [:alpha:].
>
> I thought about filtering ispell-dictionary-base-alist when used from FSF
> Emacs, so it uses [:alpha:] and still keeps compatibility. I am currently a
> bit busy, but at some time I may try this for Debian and see what happens.
For the records, I am attaching what I am currently trying, post-processing
global dictionary list while leaving local definitions at ~/.emacs
unmodified. This should also deal with [#11200: ispell.el sets incorrect
encoding for the default dictionary]. I would like to test this a bit more
and commit if there are no problems.
--
Agustin
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--- ispell.el.orig 2012-04-10 20:02:51.422092761 +0200
+++ ispell.el 2012-04-10 20:18:27.464680054 +0200
@@ -783,6 +783,12 @@
(make-obsolete-variable 'ispell-aspell-supports-utf8
'ispell-encoding8-command "23.1")
+(defvar ispell-emacs-alpha-regexp
+ (if (string-match "^[[:alpha:]]+$" "abcde")
+ "[[:alpha:]]"
+ nil)
+ "[[:alpha:]] if Emacs supports [:alpha:] regexp, nil
+otherwise (current XEmacs does not support it).")
;;; **********************************************************************
;;; The following are used by ispell, and should not be changed.
@@ -1179,8 +1185,7 @@
(error nil))
ispell-really-aspell
ispell-encoding8-command
- ;; XEmacs does not like [:alpha:] regexps.
- (string-match "^[[:alpha:]]+$" "abcde"))
+ ispell-emacs-alpha-regexp)
(unless ispell-aspell-dictionary-alist
(ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries)))
@@ -1204,8 +1209,27 @@
ispell-dictionary-base-alist))
(unless (assoc (car dict) all-dicts-alist)
(add-to-list 'all-dicts-alist dict)))
- (setq ispell-dictionary-alist all-dicts-alist))))
+ (setq ispell-dictionary-alist all-dicts-alist))
+ ;; If Emacs flavor supports [:alpha:] use it for global dicts. If
+ ;; spellchecker also supports UTF-8 via command-line option use it
+ ;; in communication. This does not affect definitions in ~/.emacs.
+ (if ispell-emacs-alpha-regexp
+ (let (tmp-dicts-alist)
+ (dolist (adict ispell-dictionary-alist)
+ (add-to-list 'tmp-dicts-alist
+ (list
+ (nth 0 adict) ; dict name
+ "[[:alpha:]]" ; casechars
+ "[^[:alpha:]]" ; not-casechars
+ (nth 3 adict) ; otherchars
+ (nth 4 adict) ; many-otherchars-p
+ (nth 5 adict) ; ispell-args
+ (nth 6 adict) ; extended-character-mode
+ (if ispell-encoding8-command
+ 'utf-8
+ (nth 7 adict)))))
+ (setq ispell-dictionary-alist tmp-dicts-alist)))))
(defun ispell-valid-dictionary-list ()
"Return a list of valid dictionaries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-17 18:46 Ispell and unibyte characters Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-26 17:39 ` Agustin Martin
2012-03-26 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-26 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-03-28 19:18 ` Agustin Martin
2012-03-29 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-29 21:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-30 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-26 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-10 19:08 ` Agustin Martin [this message]
2012-04-10 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-12 14:36 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-12 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 15:25 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-13 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 16:38 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-13 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-13 18:44 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-14 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-15 0:02 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-16 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-20 15:25 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-20 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-20 16:17 ` Agustin Martin
2012-04-21 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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