Debian bug report logs - #1793 german.hash has wron magic number Package: igerman, wgerman ; Reported by: Nils Rennebarth . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From festival.ed.ac.uk!kenny Thu Nov 2 09:44:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tB3g2-0002NgC; Thu, 2 Nov 95 09:43 PST Received: from haymarket.ed.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA03376 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 2 Nov 1995 09:43:15 -0800 Received: from festival.ed.ac.uk (festival.ed.ac.uk [129.215.128.24]) by haymarket.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA08913; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 17:42:47 GMT From: kenny@festival.ed.ac.uk To: nils@nus.pan-net.de, debian-bugs@pixar.com Cc: debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: Nils Rennebarth's message of Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:56:04 +0100 (MET) Subject: Bug#1793: german.hash has wron magic number Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 17:19:34 GMT Message-Id: <9511021719.aa22763@uk.ac.ed.festival> > Package: igerman, wgerman > Running Ispell with the supplied german.hash gives the error message: > Illegal format hash table /usr/lib/ispell/german.hash - \ > expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 > Rebuilding german.hash with buildhash succeeds but gives error messages > on all words containing umlauts. This sounds like a classsic 7bit or 8bit problem. I think you probably have 'aff and list' files for a 7 bit character set, and ispell has been compiled to use 8 bit. Look in the word list file for the umlaut representation. If they're ":o" or such like, try replacing them with the appropriate 8 bit character, and then rebuild the hash file from the new 8 bit list. Is this an old igerman.deb file (pre September)? I didn't notice anyone releasing new language ispell dictionaries. I'll try to upload a guide to ftp.debian.org later tonight... Kenny. -- | "http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~kenny" Try Linux! | | Portuguese/English/French Translations/Teaching by Native Portuguese | | "http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~kenny/helena" | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to kenny@festival.ed.ac.uk : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1793 ; Package igerman, wgerman . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de!nils Thu Nov 2 04:59:19 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tAzEd-0006EgC; Thu, 2 Nov 95 04:59 PST Received: from ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de ([204.231.136.130]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA16102 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 2 Nov 1995 04:58:24 -0800 Received: by ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 2 Nov 95 13:56 MET Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:56:04 +0100 (MET) From: Nils Rennebarth To: Debian Bugs Subject: german.hash has wron magic number Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Package: igerman, wgerman Running Ispell with the supplied german.hash gives the error message: Illegal format hash table /usr/lib/ispell/german.hash - \ expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 Rebuilding german.hash with buildhash succeeds but gives error messages on all words containing umlauts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Nils Rennebarth : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1793 ; Package igerman, wgerman . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 18:13:03 GMT Thu 02 Nov