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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kspell bug
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-15 21:05:08
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On Saturday 14 July 2001 04:00 pm, Christian Gebauer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2001 11:16, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > Just open an empty document and type "$ sdlfkj sdlfkj we rsdlrkjwer",
> > > the spellchecker will close immediatly.
> > >
> > > As I said, I (and the bugreporter) have the same problem in all
> > > KDE-applications (kedit, kmail, knode, kate ..)
> > >
> > > My language is english(us) / "C", charset: iso-8859-1, ispell 3.1.20,
> > > english dictionary.
> >
> > some fast info;
> > - said text in a text file and run ispell, works fine.
> > - said text in kword, has said problem.
> > - move the '$' 2 words to the right, and 2 words are checked, then it
> > stops. - the problem is in English, German and Dutch (only languages I
> > have)
>
> Ok, according to the ispell author its a known ispell bug:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ispell+dollar&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=4&ic=1&
>selm=3v3nnt%24tvv%40saba.info.ucla.edu
>
> ispell simply freezes when it encounters the dollar sign in the
> non-interactive mode.
>
> The strange think is that all major distributions seem to ship
> ispell 3.1.20 from 1995. I hope they include a patch for this problem...
> (the rpm included in SuSE 7.0 is broken)

Maybe we should try to strip out/replace the '$' for the time being then?

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
I don't suffer from insanity,
          I enjoy every minute of it.
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