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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] Seriously, does Aspell always fail *safely* with Unicode?
From:       Kevin Atkinson <kevina () gnu ! org>
Date:       2004-03-17 0:34:51
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0403161931220.19844-100000 () kevin-p3 ! atkinson ! dhs ! org
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, James J. Ramsey wrote:

> So far, I have never seen Aspell do any harm to a
> UTF-8 encoded file, and I am still trying to figure
> out if that is just luck or not. All I've seen is
> display problems with curses and a skipping over of
> the bits of Unicode that aren't coincident with ASCII.
> Does Aspell always fail this safely on UTF-8 files?

When checking a file Aspell simply copies the original file unless a 
spelling correction is made.   So it should be safe for the most part.  I 
will not promise you that Aspell will _never_ mess up a UTF-8 file.

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