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If there is not a standard character set for your language than you
can invent one. The new charset will only be used by Aspell
internally. If the option data-encoding
is set to
utf-8
, and your current locale character type is always set to
utf-8
, than you can use UTF-8 for everything and not
worry yourself that an 8-bit character set is being used internally.
If your language has no more than 210 distinct symbols, including
different capitalizations and accents, than Aspell can support it.
In order to create a new character set you will need to download
the file aspell-lang-
version.tar.bz2
from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/ and follow
the instructions in the README
file. Version 0.1, and 0.2 of
mkchardata will not work as the format of the character data file
has changed.