fix typo in commit 16925

[lyx.git] / src / aspell.C

diff --git a/src/aspell.C b/src/aspell.C
index 29a8f81422c5822d34f32b1ead64e3208efe08e2..69252704041db9471ae5ec63dd67acad668c261d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/aspell.C
+++ b/src/aspell.C
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ void ASpell::addSpeller(string const & lang)
        AspellConfig * config = new_aspell_config();
        // FIXME The aspell documentation says to use "lang"
        aspell_config_replace(config, "language-tag", lang.c_str());
+       // Set the encoding to utf-8.
+       // aspell does also understand "ucs-4", so we would not need a
+       // conversion in theory, but if this is used it expects all
+       // char const * arguments to be a cast from  uint const *, and it
+       // seems that this uint is not compatible with our char_type on some
+       // platforms (cygwin, OS X). Therefore we use utf-8, that does
+       // always work.
        aspell_config_replace(config, "encoding", "utf-8");
        AspellCanHaveError * err = new_aspell_speller(config);
        if (spell_error_object)