[Aspell-user] Spell-checking accented texts

[DOLCINI Pietro]

Hi,

I'm currently writing my final project report in french using Latex under Linux 
Red Hat 9.0.
I've uninstalled the old aspell 0.3 installed by deafault and intallled Aspell 
0.50.3.

When I try to use it from within VIM all the accented characters (usually 
normally diplayed in the shell) are changed to small squares, making it 
impossible to continue checking. The same happens when I use aspell from the 
command line.

If I use the encoding option --encoding=iso8859-1 problems are not resolved, 
I've tried to change the encoding using KDE KWrite but without appreciable 
results (actually I managed to stop LaTeX from recognising accented letters too 
;-) )

Since the french dictionary is available the problem should be easy one but I'm 
rather short of ideas (recompiling xterm to support utf8 would help?)

Thanks
Pietro