From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 11 12:17:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02272 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:17:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from bubble.didi.com (sjx-ca124-37.ix.netcom.com [207.223.162.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02252 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id LAA00702; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:58:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801111958.LAA00702@bubble.didi.com> To: alchemy@inconnect.com CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980110201735.6299.qmail@shell.inconnect.com> (alchemy@inconnect.com) Subject: Re: International ispell From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * Yes, I've done it before. However, you do have to supply a command * switch to specify a language. I.e.: ispell -d deutsch filename. * Ispell will only work with one language at a time, but it's still nice * to have multiple language support. :-) * * > I think the better thing to do is to have ispell install different * > binaries that use different names. (Or install one binary with * > symlinks for different names, and have it check argv[0] to pick the * > appropriate dictionary.) * * That's a good idea, but it renders it incompatible with programs like * XEmacs, which only know how to run the "ispell" bin. Your second * suggestion might work, though. That sounds good. Go for it! Satoshi