in an UTF-8 environment, aspell spell-checking does not work for languages like portuguese

[Ulf Mehlig]

Binary package hint: emacs23

when activating spell-checking via aspell and choosing a dictionary like "brasileiro", words with letters like "ç" (c-cedilla) are not correctly recognized; in flyspell-mode, it appears that emacs uses the "unknown" characters as word boundaries. The problem has probably to do with 1) not passing the charcater set correctly to the aspell process (aspell *can* check texts in UTF-8 when called from the command line and 2) the setting of ispell-dictionary-alist etc., where iso-8859-1 is hard-coded as character set for most non-english languages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 2 07:06:11 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs23

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago