ispell.el: new dictionary for German/Latin-9?

ispell.el: new dictionary for German/Latin-9?

[Kai Großjohann]

Right now, ispell.el has the deutsch8 dictionary which uses Latin-1
encoding.  It is not possible to use this to spell-check German text
which is in Latin-9.  I therefore propose an addition to
ispell-dictionary-alist along the following lines:

(add-to-list 'ispell-dictionary-alist
	     '("deutsch8-15"
	       "[a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
	       "[^a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
	       "[']" t
	       ("-C" "-d" "deutsch")
	       "~latin1" iso-8859-15))

(I'm not sure it's a good idea to put "~latin1" there...)

What do you think?

kai
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Re: ispell.el: new dictionary for German/Latin-9?

[Geoff Kuenning]

> (I'm not sure it's a good idea to put "~latin1" there...)
> 
> What do you think?

The "latin1" is just used to select a character table from ispell's
affix files.  So that's probably the best choice for now.  In the long
run, somebody should update the affix files to understand latin9.
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