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 better

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

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?)

2008-06-24 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 version of

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

2008-06-24 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