Re: ispell problem with aspell dictionary aliases

[Agustin Martin]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:08:17PM +0100, David PONCE wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is an annoying problem with ispell when using aspell
> dictionaries.  I noticed that when I change the dictionary to
> "francais".  With aspell (0.60.3) and UTF-8 that dictionary doesn't
> work well, whereas the "french" dictionary work well.  That surprised
> me because the "french" and "francais" dictionaries are both aliases
> of the "fr_FR" dictionary.

Can reproduce it with words containing chars not in the iso-8859-1 charset,
like

coeur

not as above, but with 'oe' expressed as a single char (\oe in TeX). With
aspell, ispell-dictionary-alist french entry is utf8 while francais entry
is iso-8859-1.

> 
> In fact the problem is in `ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries' which adds
> dictionary aliases AFTER the standard definitions have been added,
> without overriding them.
> 
> The patch below solved the problem for me.

Same here, seems to work well.

-- 
Agustin