Problems: Foreign characters with accents and Spell Checking

From: abatto@indiana.edu
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 19:18:20 EST

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    Hi,

    Is there any way to type or insert foreign characters with diacritical
    marks (accents) in Abiword 1.0.3 for Windows without using
    Insert->Symbol? I don't want to use the symbol fonts to insert foreign
    characters because the spell checker can't deal with those fonts.

    The spell checker won't recognize text with characters inserted by
    Insert->Symbol. The spell checker, however, will recognize text which
    has been cut and pasted from other program like MSWord. So I need to
    use normal fonts, not symbol fonts. Can I type the foreign characters
    using normal fonts in Abiword for Windows?

    My guess is that the numbers are different for Symbol fonts rather
    than normal fonts, so the spell checker doesn't recognize the words
    created with the symbol fonts. This problem does not happen when I run
    Abiword for Linux, only for Windows. I know that Windows Abiword uses
    Ispell, while Linux Abiword uses Aspell to spell check, so that might
    be the difference.

    I convinced everyone in my Portuguese class to use Abiword for Windows
    to spell check our Portuguese papers, but now everyone is complaining.
     I almost converted 20 other people to the world of free software.
    Sigh...Oh well. Any suggestions?

    -Thanks in advance, Amos Batto
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