How to use Unicode in aspell dictionary?
I'm trying to use aspell to check spelling in my text. I have a custom dictionary with exceptions. They are all in ASCII, but one word is in Unicode ( foo.en.pws ): personal_ws-1.1 en 554 Foo bar Bárbara Then, I run: cat x.txt | aspell -a --encoding=utf-8 -p ./foo.en.pws And I'm getting: Error: ./foo.en.pws: The word "Bárbara" is invalid. The character '�' (U+A1) may not appear in the middle of a word. What should I do? I found a way, thanks to this documentation page . The first line of the dictionary has to have utf-8 at the end: personal_ws-1.1 en 554 utf-8 Foo bar Bárbara 来源: https:/