Re: [newbie] emacs flyspell not understands well accented chars

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
>
>> I suspect this is because your locale sets Emacs up to use Latin-9
>> encoding, while Ispell's dictionary is encoded in Latin-1.  Current
>> released versions of Emacs see Latin-1 and Latin-9 as different
>> characters, sigh...
>
> It's fairly easy to fool ispell.  I use the following kludge:
>
> (require 'ispell)
> (add-to-list 'ispell-local-dictionary-alist
> 	     '("ndeutsch8-15"
> 	       "[a-zA-Z\xf44\xf56\xf5c\xf5f\xf64\xf76\xf7c]"
> 	       "[^a-zA-Z\xf44\xf56\xf5c\xf5f\xf64\xf76\xf7c]"
> 	       "[']" t
> 	       ("-C" "-d" "ndeutsch")
> 	       "~latin1" iso-8859-15))
>
> I took the ndeutsch8 entry and modified it slightly.  Note that the
> next-to-last item still says "~latin1", and the ispell dictionary
> name still says "ndeutsch", but the last item in the list is now
> iso-8859-15 instead of iso-8859-1.
[...]

I suspect (but have not tested it) that if the OP replaces the two
regexps with "[[:alpha:]]" and "[^[:alpha:]]" respectively, it could
work right of the box with Italian, too.

    Oliver
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