document why we are not using ucs-4 when communicating with aspell

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Georg Baum 2006-12-12 08:17:22 +00:00
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@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ void ASpell::addSpeller(string const & lang)
AspellConfig * config = new_aspell_config();
// FIXME The aspell documentation says to use "lang"
aspell_config_replace(config, "language-tag", lang.c_str());
// Set the encoding to utf-8.
// aspell does also understand "ucs-4", so we would not need a
// conversion in theory, but if this is used it expects all
// char const * arguments to be a cast from uint const *, and it
// seems that this uint is not compatible with our char_type on some
// platforms (cygwin, OS X). Therefore we use utf-8, that does
// always work.
aspell_config_replace(config, "encoding", "utf-8");
AspellCanHaveError * err = new_aspell_speller(config);
if (spell_error_object)