Your message dated Thu, 8 Jan 2026 00:10:46 +0100 with message-id <cahmxk7in2jokfzqka1pudcz0zzxgahzmaownhyl58c5dhjf...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: Bug#205516: dictionaries-common: aspell via ispell.el chokes on utf-8 characters has caused the Debian Bug report #205516, regarding dictionaries-common: aspell via ispell.el chokes on utf-8 characters to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.10.3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I've discovered that when emacs is configured to use aspell ( customize ispell-program-name as "aspell"), the ispell-* functions fail on certain utf-8 constructs. Try spell-checking the following misspelled fragment in emacs, where the -- is the unicode em dash (get it by switching to TeX keyboard mode (C-x RET C-\ TeX RET), and typing --). --cut here--- a -- surveillence --cut here-- If your system is like mine (it may not be; I may have an unusual configuration option set somewhere), you should see: ispell-process-line: Ispell misalignment: word `surveillence' point 13; probably incompatible versions Change the em dash to a pair of ASCII hyphens ("--"), and ispell suggests correcting the word `surveillence'. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bigbox 2.4.20-3-686 #1 Sun Jul 27 18:13:41 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf 1.3.7 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/default-ispell: american (American English) * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: american-large (American English -- large) dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true
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--- Begin Message ---El mar, 6 ene 2026 a las 0:01, Agustin Martin (<[email protected]>) escribió: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:10:09PM +0200, Agustin Martin Domingo wrote: > > Joseph Barillari wrote: > > > > > > I've discovered that when emacs is configured to use aspell ( > > > customize ispell-program-name as "aspell"), the ispell-* functions fail > > > on certain utf-8 constructs. > > > > > > ispell-process-line: Ispell misalignment: word `surveillence' point 13; > > > probably incompatible versions > > Not sure where this changed, but seems that this bug report can (finally) be > closed unless someone can reproduce it. Currentñy unreproducible and submitter address bouncing. Closing this ancient bug report. -- Agustin
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