aspell seems unable to put German umlauts

Thanks for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better,

This is probably caused by the wrong encoding. Usage of the right argument for the encoding of the file should help this.

I would like to close this report.

Thanks

I CANNOT confirm this is an encoding issue.

Working on the plain console with umlauts works as fine as working on konsole with the special charakters, such as ä, ö, ü and ß. Aspell also perfectly recognizes words with umlauts, as long as they are spelled correctly. However, when I am trying to type umlauts in the "replace word" dialog ("r" hotkey), I just see an empty space for every umlaut I type in.

I use aspell 0.60.5-1ubuntu1 on Kunbutu 7.10.

Besides this aspell issue, there aren't any other umlaut issues on my system that I am aware of.

Thanks for your answer.

Could you please paste the output of "env", and "file <filename>" with <filename> being the file that is checked and has the problem.

Thanks

Sure.

"file" says: "LaTeX 2e document"

This is the env output:

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LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man
INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
SSH_AGENT_PID=6143
HOSTNAME=linux
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-evWdy9/S.gpg-agent:6136:1
TERM=xterm
HOST=linux
SHELL=/bin/bash
PROFILEREAD=true
HISTSIZE=1000
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic
GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/peter/.gtkrc-2.0-kde:/home/peter/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/peter/.gtkrc:/home/peter/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
GS_LIB=/home/peter/.fonts
WINDOWID=31457285
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
USER=peter
XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls
HOSTTYPE=i386
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-RjptBr6039/agent.6039
SESSION_MANAGER=local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6196
XPSERVERLIST=
PAGER=less
KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-6227,konsole)
MINICOM=-c on
PATH=/home/peter/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games
DESKTOP_SESSION=kde
CPU=i686
KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-6227,session-2)
PWD=/home/peter/dokumente/verwaltung
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
KDE_SESSION_UID=
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
TEXINPUTS=:/home/peter/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX
HOME=/home/peter
SHLVL=1
OSTYPE=linux
LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
XCURSOR_THEME=kubuntu
LOGNAME=peter
LESS=-M -I
MACHTYPE=i686-suse-linux
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-7G1VAMFE1O,guid=0710cdf1091e2937ffc4b10047f6871a
LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s
INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info
DISPLAY=:0
LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s
COLORTERM=
_=/usr/bin/env
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Does this problem occur on a later release than edgy?

Thanks

I've just upgraded to 8.04. The issue remains: While there are no apparent problems with the umlauts on console/konsole, only empty spaces occur when trying to enter umlauts in aspell.

What can I do to help you track down the problem?

Still occurs on a fresh 9.10 installation.

A bug has been filed upstream at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2955373&group_id=245&atid=100245.

Bigbug21 if you are interested in getting this fixed please follow up there.

This bug was fixed in the package aspell - 0.60.6-3ubuntu1

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aspell (0.60.6-3ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Added CVS patch 11_special_chars.diff:
    - Closes LP: #77414
 -- Anthony Mercatante <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:45:08 +0100