The problem comes from fact that IMP 4 seems to use UTF-8 internally 
and so it sends the text to aspell in UTF-8. aspell version 0.33 that 
comes with RHEL3 works only with ISO8859-1.



A simple workaround is to define a script that does the conversion 
from and to UTF-8 before sending the data to aspell. Here is an example:



# cat /usr/local/bin/aspell2



#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-1 < /dev/stdin | /usr/bin/aspell $@ 
| /usr/bin/iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8



You then use /usr/local/bin/aspell2 in the IMP configuration, and the 
spell checking of text using any language supported by aspell 0.33 
should now work properly.

When using IMP (version 4.0.3) in french, if I try to do a spell check 
of a french text that includes some accented characters, those 
characters are not properly recognised by the spell checker program 
and the display also gets a bit garbled. See the attached image for an 
example. For the sentence in the image, only the word "bein" should be 
flagged as a spelling error.



This is on IMP 4.0.3 on horde 3.0.4 or 3.0.5-RC2, on a RHEL3 box, 
using the following aspell packages:

aspell-fr-0.6-8

aspell-en-ca-0.33.7.1-25.3

aspell-es-0.2-13

aspell-config-0.33.7.1-25.3

aspell-0.33.7.1-25.3

aspell-devel-0.33.7.1-25.3



Our current production site (running Horde 2.2.7 and IMP 3.2.6) is 
running on the same server with the same aspell packages and spell 
checking in french is working correctly...



Thanks for any help.



Luc.