Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Sat,08.Nov.08, 22:17:42, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>  
> > > and now I have a working spellfile (before that it was using only the 
> > > .aff file to build the .spl). Could you please replace the file on 
> > > ftp.vim.org with one built from the wordlist indicated by me? The old 
> > > file is plain useless (actually it could be doing more harm then good).
> > 
> > To be able to allow everybody to reproduce the .spl file we need to
> > write a .aap file that does the work.  It basically does all the work
> > that you would do manually.  In this case it would also do the
> > conversion from utf-8 to iso-8859-2 to make a spell file in that
> > encoding.  
> 
> No, please don't. The new diacritics (șțȘȚ) can not be
> represented in ISO-8859-2, they need UTF-8. Only the -cedilla wordlist
> uses them, but we (as in the Romanian FLOSS community) are trying to
> switch to the new diacritics.
> 
> Even MS (responsible for creating the old/wrong diacritics
> (şŞţŢ)) is using the correct ones in Vista and there is an
> update available for XP.

So what about people who have iso-8859-2 files on a system that doesn't
support utf-8?  Would the old spell file be better than nothing?
Or would a conversion from utf-8 to iso-8859-2 of the new spell file
give better results.

> > Do you think you can write this .aap file?  You can use the
> > files of other languages as an example.  If not then I can put it on my
> > todo list (which probably means it will take a couple of months before I
> > get to it).
> 
> I'll see what I can do about it, but no promises. Better do put it on 
> your TODO list, just in case I'm too busy. The spare time I have now I 
> tend to use for translation work for the Debian Lenny release, which 
> should happen Real Soon Now (tm).

Fixing bugs currently has priority.  I also still have a note to update
the Dutch spell file, I think already for half a year...

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