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Adding-Support-For-Other-Languages.html#Adding-Support-For-Other-LanguagesAdding Support For Other Languages 7.8 Creating A New Character Set
If there is not a standard character set for your language than you
can invent one.  The new charset will only be used by Aspell
internally.  If the option 
data-encoding is set to
`
utf-8', and your current locale character type is always set to
`
utf-8', than you can use UTF-8 for everything and not
worry yourself that an 8-bit character set is being used internally. 
If your language has no more than 210 distinct symbols, including
different capitalizations and accents, than Aspell can support it.
   
In order to create a new character set you will need to download
the file 
aspell-lang-version.tar.bz2 from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/  and follow
the instructions in the 
README file.  Version 0.1, and 0.2 of
mkchardata 
will not work as the format of the character data file
has changed.
   
