On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Chip Coldwell wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Reiner Steib wrote:
>> 
>> | [a-zA-ZÄÖÜäößü]
>> 
>> If you intend to send UTF-8, you MUA should not declare it as
>> "Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1".  ;-)
>
> Ooops.  I haven't tamed my MUA yet.  It's only been ten years.
>
>>> My question is: are emacs regex character classes limited to the
>>> iso-8859-1 character set, or is there some way to represent Unicode
>>> (such as UTF-8) characters in a character class?
>> 
>> AFAIK, you can write the chars in UTF-8 if you specify the encoding of
>> the lisp file, cf. (info "(emacs)Specify Coding"):
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> (defun rs-test ()
>>  (interactive)
>>  (re-search-forward "[ÄÖÜäößü]"))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> I don't know if there's a reason why isn't used in `ispell.el'.
>
> The particular issue is that ispell is currently broken if your LANG
> environment variable specifies UTF-8 encoding, your buffer is UTF-8
> encoded and contains one of these non-ASCII characters, and you
> specify the "deutsch8" dictionary.  ispell-word generates the error:
>
> "Ispell and its process have different character maps"

I should also mention that this is with aspell version 0.6; version
0.5 seems to do the right thing regardless.

Chip

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Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell
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