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Support for enchant?

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 17742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:54:21 +0300

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:35:16 +0100
> Cc: 17742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 21 December 2016 at 17:32, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> wrote:
> 
>  On 21 December 2016 at 17:13, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  Maybe we should simply wait until Enchant acquires those APIs.
> 
>  ​I'll revisit this when a new Enchant release is made. The timing and future plans for Enchant and Emacs
>  might affect the decision at that point, or I might have found more energy to implement hunspell
>  dictionary scanning for Enchant!
> 
> ​I attach updated patches, one for Enchant support, and the other to remove a little historical cruft from
> ispell.el.
> 
> Enchant 2.1.0 (just released) adds support for getting the otherchars character list (currently only supported
> on hunspell), and the ispell.el support uses it.
> 
> Hence, I believe that the Enchant support should now satisfy Eli's requirements.

Thanks, this looks OK to me.

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