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schard

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[SOLVED] Encoding error in auto correction of Evolution

Hi all,

since a couple of days, my email client, Evolution, suggests autocorrections of words with non-ASCII characters, such as Umlauts, with broken encoding.
E.g. it suggests to replace möglicherweise with möglicherweise.
This is annoying, since I use the autocorrect to detect possible spelling errors and thusly get a lot of false-positives when writing emails in German.
Here are my locales:

$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
                  LC_COLLATE=C
       VC Keymap: de
      X11 Layout: de

And the installed spell checkers:

$ pacman -Qs "hunspell|aspell"
local/aspell 0.60.8-2
    A spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
local/aspell-de 20161207-3
    German dictionary for aspell
local/hunspell 1.7.0-3
    Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
local/hunspell-de 20161207-6
    German hunspell dictionaries

How can I fix the false-positives with broken encoding?

Solution
Bug fixed upstream.

Last edited by schard (2021-06-23 08:22:21)

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mpan

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Re: [SOLVED] Encoding error in auto correction of Evolution

There were some encoding issues with hunspell-* packages lately.

Possibly related: Incorrect character encoding. There I have assumed it wasn’t hunspell-related, because the report does not indicate the problem occurs in autocorrection only. But — re-reading the question — it may be interpreted as such.

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schard

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From: Hannover

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Re: [SOLVED] Encoding error in auto correction of Evolution

Thanks. Indeed the errors seem to be related.
The solution seems to be to wait for an upstream fix then.

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