Creating A New Character Set - GNU Aspell 0.60.3
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### 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/ 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.