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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> I swear it does not work! ;-)

I believe you, but I try to figure out why...

> >> ispell -d deutsch Text.txt
> >
> > Now I get very confused, because this is exactly the way ispell is being
> > called (together with an -a option for interactivity), as the output
> > in your terminal should tell you by the way.
> 
> So, maybe there is something wrong with the pipe. 
> 
> Mh, I just tried to work interactively with ispell on the commandline
> and it does not recognize umlauts anymore. 
> 
> Even when I start it with 
> 
> ispell -a -w äöüÄÖÜß -d ngerman Test1.txt
> 
> it think that König, Mücke or Gruß are mispelled.
> 
> But it recognizes umlauts, when they are written in this way:
> 
> Ko"nig, Mu"cke, GrusS

Yes, I noticed the same thing for Spanish.

> So I think that when you start it with -a all "illegal" characters must be
> converted in this way in order to get spellchecking right.

The problem is that aspell *does* recognize these characters
in the right way...

Anybody knows of a reliable test in order to know whether
the ispell/aspell program on a random system uses the iso-latin1
encoding or the fancy above encoding?