>> I don't know why older Aspell's are no good for us. Magnus, can you
>> please comment on that?
> The main cause is that aspell >= 0.60 consistently supports UTF-8,
> which simplifies the automatic dictionary detection. Supporting
> aspell 0.50 would involve either looking for "charset" declarations in
> in ispell-aspell-find-dictionary, or disabling the dictionary finding
> and relying on the value of ispell-dictionary-alist.
> The latter would be something like this patch:
IIUC, this patch would let older aspell use the old elisp code (which
worked just fine, except it wasn't able to figure out which dictionaries
are installed, so it used a default heuristic list)?
Sounds good to me,
Stefan
> --- orig/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
> +++ mod/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
> @@ -719,6 +719,12 @@
> (defvar ispell-really-aspell nil) ; Non-nil if aspell extensions should be
> used
> +(defvar ispell-aspell-supports-utf8 nil
> + "Non-nil means to try to automatically find aspell dictionaries.
> +This is set to t in ispell-check-version for aspell >= 0.60.
> +
> +Earlier aspell versions do not consistently support UTF-8. Handling
> +this would require some extra guessing in `ispell-aspell-find-dictionary'.")
> @@ -815,8 +821,9 @@
> (let (case-fold-search)
> (setq ispell-really-aspell
> (and (search-forward-regexp "(but really Aspell \\(.*\\))" nil
> t)
> - (if (version< (match-string 1) "0.60")
> - (error "aspell version 0.60 or greater is required")
> + (progn
> + (setq ispell-aspell-supports-utf8
> + (not (version< (match-string 1) "0.60")))
> t)))))
> (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
> result))
> @@ -972,7 +979,8 @@
> (condition-case ()
> (progn (ispell-check-version) t)
> (error nil))
> - ispell-really-aspell)
> + ispell-really-aspell
> + ispell-aspell-supports-utf8)
> (ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries))
> (let ((dicts (append ispell-local-dictionary-alist
> ispell-dictionary-alist))
> (dict-list (cons "default" nil))
> Other than that, minor details and risk of bit rot. E.g. 0.50 accepts
> "-l" as an alias of "list", while 0.60 does not (this was fixed in
> flyspell a couple of months ago).
> Magnus
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