> (1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with
> ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit
> characters. Same problem with running ispell from the command line,
> but I can't find anything in the docs (only an option to force 7-bit,
> which is not quite what I'm looking for). So how do I make ispell
> process 8-bit input?
> (2) Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell
> checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in facility
> or is it accomplished by ispell as well? And how do I get additional
> language support? I'm not sure if that matters, but I'm using the mule
> binary.
I had the same problems yesterday. The first 3 problems you described are
ispell problems. When you type "ispell -vv" you get a list with flags of
ispell. One of these flags is "NO8BIT".
Here is what I have done to correct that:
- got the soure of ispell
- recompiled it with the define/flag "!NO8BIT" or with the flag NO8BIT off.
- Before the recompilation you can add other languages
therefore you need files as deutsch.lat or deutch.sml and deutsch.aff, for
french francois.sml or francois.lat and francois.aff.
When these files are not included with ispell you can find them on the web.
- when this is succeeded you can start ispell on the commandline with:
"ispell -d francois document.tex"
- when this is working you can do it in (x)emacs (make sure that during the
recompilation you have given the right path to your emacs).
- for dictionaries other than English your need to load the dictionary in emacs
by hand (I have not found yet to do it automatically). This is done by
"meta-x; ispell-change-dictionary". The current ispell process is killed
and if you start a new process it is started with the new dictionary.
success Joop
