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[Davide Anchisi <address@hidden>]

Ciao Massimiliano,

I am on a Debian GNU/Linux 64 bit system.

The problem: Start new document, chose Document -> language -> Italian,

write some text with accents, e.g. università (I don't know if you can  
see it correctly encoded, should be sort of unversita', but wiht the  
accent on the "a")
The terminal says :
TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d italian'

and I get the following choices from within texmacs:
a: accept, r: replace, i: insert, 1: universitÃa , 2: universi
[but with an invers "^" on the last "a"]

If I chose accept then, immediately after or if I try to run the spell  
check again I get the message (from within texmacs)
Error: ispell does not respond
And on the console:
 TeXmacs] ispell error: Errore: The word "universit?" is invalid. Il  
carattere '?' (U+3F) non può comparire alla fine di una parola.

I played a little, and I got this behaviour for some words (e.g. è,  
portò, perché, caffé --  e', porto', perche', caffe'), but not with  
others (tagliò, più, lì --  taglio', piu', li'). That's very strange...

I hope there will be an easy solution.

  Grazie

Davide


Quoting address@hidden:

> Hi Davide and Massimiliano,
>
> I have the same issue as Davide, in French. I'm using Linux.
>
> When I spell check any document with French language, it chokes on  
> every accented letter, but also ï, etc.
> The console reports :
>
> TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d french'
> TeXmacs] ispell error: Erreur : The word "pr?cis" is invalid. Le  
> caractère '?' (U+3F) ne peut pas apparaître au milieu d'un mot.
>
> TeXmacs] ispell error: Erreur : The word "?" is invalid. Le  
> caractère '?' (U+3F) ne peut pas apparaître au début d'un mot.
>
> TeXmacs] ispell error: Erreur : The word "rh?torique" is invalid. Le  
> caractère '?' (U+3F) ne peut pas apparaître au milieu d'un mot.
>
> (I pressed "a" for accept each time. The second word was à).
> Moreover, usually after a couple of "accept", I get a message in the  
> footer : "Error: ispell does not respond".
>
> I attach a copy of the window during the checking of the first word  
> above (précis). Check the footer : the proposed replacements are  
> only 3-letters long, and there are obviously problems with accents.  
> It's strange that it works on your mac, though.
>
>
> best regards,
> Philippe
>
> Massimiliano Gubinelli - address@hidden wrote:
> > Ciao Davide,
> > can you be more precise? I use spell checking every day in french  
> > and i didn't notice any particular problem with accents.
> > Can you give me a procedure to reproduce in order to see the  
> > problems you are facing?
> >
> > grazie,
> >
> > Massimiliano
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 mars 2012, at 14:52, Davide Anchisi wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I still didn't decided to go with texmacs, I'm trying now and again.
> > > I like the way things are done when using it, and  the feeling of  
> > > finished document when working on it.
> > >
> > > I would like to use texmacs more extensively, but small problems  
> > > prevent an effective use.
> > > Things are getting better with each release, even the easiness of  
> > > use and the documentation, but some more descriptive  
> > > documentation, and/or some example would let to take full  
> > > advantage of TexMacs possibilities. What is more frustrating to me  
> > > is that it seems that TexMacs is rich of features... but hidden  
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I will not give up. Here is my question.
> > > One and a half year ago there was a problem with spell check for  
> > > accented letters  (at least for the italian language), and still  
> > > the problem is here (I am using  version 1.0.7.15). Is there any  
> > > advance, or workaround?
> > > The old post follows.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Davide
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:30:53PM +0200, Davide Anchisi wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > > > The spell checker is working again.
> > > > > Still, remains a problem that I noticed also on previous  
> > > > > versions of  Texmacs, but I could check it for v. 1.0.7.7 only  
> > > > > now:
> > > > > spell check for languages that make use of accented letters  
> > > > > results in  improper corrections.
> > > > > E.g. the Italian word "caffé", which is properly spelled, is  
> > > > > signaled  wrong and the suggestion is: "caffè".
> > > > > I get the following message on the console:
> > > > > TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d italian'
> > > > > TeXmacs] ispell error: Error: The word "?" is invalid. The  
> > > > > character '?' (U+3F) cannot be at the beginning of a word.
> > > > ... they probably switched encodings to Unicode in the meantime.
> > > > I don't know to fix this bug in a reliable way (so as to work with
> > > > old and new versions of the italian dictionary).
> > > >      So: if someone has a patch, then I will apply it.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Best wishes, --Joris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > SEMEL (SErvizio di Messaging ELettronico) - AINF, Universita' di Udine



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