Bug 18774

Summary: doesn't conform to the new German orthography
Product: Branch 5.0 Reporter: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component: ispell-deAssignee: viy <viy>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: qa-5.0 <qa-5.0>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2009-02-08 14:26:07 MSK 
ispell-de-3.2.06-alt9

It doesn't accept some new spellings (new "dass" instead of old "daß"). (Although--what is strange--accepts some other new spellings (new "Russland" instead of old "Rußland"), so it is even not consistent.)

$ ispell -d deutsch
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 08/01/01
word: dass
how about: da, dar, das, dasS

word: Russland
ok

word: 
[ivan@dell ~]$ 


The new spellings are the only correct spellings since 1 August 2006, so ispell-de should be fixed.

References: http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/da%C3%9F , http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ru%C3%9Fland .
Comment 1 viy 2009-02-08 16:44:59 MSK 
Ok, I will try to follow gentoo, 
http://gentoo-portage.com/app-dicts/ispell-de
where those dicts are used:
http://j3e.de/ispell/igerman98/
Comment 2 viy 2009-04-12 22:44:25 MSD 
done. on its way to Sisyphus.