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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] Multi-language spell-checking
From:       Kevin Atkinson <kevina () gnu ! org>
Date:       2010-01-25 0:12:31
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.1001241657180.31967 () bas ! flux ! utah ! edu
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John Tyree wrote:

> As many others are apparently trying to do, I wish to use aspell to check
> more than one language at a time. I did see in the manual that this is
> possible via the *.multi files, but I was quite unable to get it to
> function. Is there a way to accomplish this without having to modify the
> system-wide .../lib/aspell directory? Preferably just with a ~/.aspell.conf
> file? Here is the best I could come up with, but it appears that
> 'local-data-dir' is silently ignored. Thanks in advance.

You can not combine dictionaries from different languages in Aspell. 
You have to create a new language.  However, since different languages 
have different suggestions strategies and affix rules this is a non-trivial task.





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