Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

2008-06-25 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Agustin Martin wrote: > > IIRC, none of aspell or hunspell can handle pseudo-charsets like 'a or TeX > > explicit chars \'a, \'{a}, while ispell can, if the aff file has them > > declared, so there is no full replacement for ispell.

Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Agustin Martin wrote: > IIRC, none of aspell or hunspell can handle pseudo-charsets like 'a or TeX > explicit chars \'a, \'{a}, while ispell can, if the aff file has them > declared, so there is no full replacement for ispell. [could probably sound harsh, but isn't ment as such] i suggest to disc

Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

2008-06-25 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:08:53AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > How about removing this obsolete package instead of just orphaning it? I > > say "obsolete" because it didn't adapt to the fact that UTF-8 is the > > preferred character encoding nowadays, and bette

Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

2008-06-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
How about removing this obsolete package instead of just orphaning it? I say "obsolete" because it didn't adapt to the fact that UTF-8 is the preferred character encoding nowadays, and better replacements exist (e.g., "aspell -i"). See also #469016. Yes, I know about the huge list of reverse de

Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > How about removing this obsolete package instead of just orphaning it? I > say "obsolete" because it didn't adapt to the fact that UTF-8 is the > preferred character encoding nowadays, and better replacements exist > (e.g., "aspell -i"). See also #469016. the vers