Package: aspell-bin Version: 0.60.2+20050121-2 Severity: important
Even for dictionaries with "soundslike" activated, Aspell does not use soundslike when looking up corrections. A demonstration: First the preparations: % sudo apt-get install aspell-fr % echo $'bordeaux\nbordo' > test_soundslike Exactly the same problem also exists in Danish, but here we use the French dictionary, since there are reported other bugs against "aspell-da". Now we check the "soundslike" of the two words: % LANG=fr_FR aspell soundslike < test_soundslike bordeaux PORTO bordo PORTO As you can see, Aspell knows that these two strings would be pronounced roughly the same. Then ask Aspell to check the file for misspellings: % LANG=fr_FR aspell check test_soundslike Aspell (correctly) accepts "bordeaux". Then it (also correctly) complains about "bordo". But the suggestions for correcting the error are: 1) bord 6) borde 2) ordo 7) bord 3) bords 8) porto 4) boldo 9) bordai 5) borda 0) bordons Of which only "porto" has the same soundslike as "bordeaux" and "bordo". This error basically means that the Aspell version in Debian is no better than Ispell, while it is wasting more disk space and doesn't have to code-maturity which Ispell has. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc Locale: LANG=fo_FO.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fo_FO.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aspell-bin depends on: ii libaspell15 0.60.2+20050121-2 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
