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kfirba
kfirba

Reputation: 5441

pspell returns question marks(�)

I've tried to install pspell on an Ubuntu trusty distribution with the following commands:

sudo apt-get install libpspell-dev sudo apt-get install php5-pspell sudo apt-get install aspell-he

The process seems to have succeeded since there was no error returned during the installation process.

However, when I try this in action, I get an array of question marks(�):

pspell_config_create("he");
$t = pspell_new('he');

$suggestions = pspell_suggest($t, 'דבל');


return view('master', compact('suggestions')); 
// the above line can be swapped with"
// print_r($suggestions);
// and the result stays the same

The reason I used view is that because I thought that maybe the webpage need some charset set to it so I used HTML5 document structure to achieve that, however the result remained the same.

My HTML markup:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="he">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    סתם טקסט לבדיקה
    <?php print_r($suggestions); ?>
</body>
</html>

The result returned from that:

סתם טקסט לבדיקה Array ( [0] => � [1] => � [2] => � [3] => � [4] => � [5] => � [6] => � )

I've also ran another test where I tried to do:

return pspell_check($t, 'הגדא') ? 'there is' : 'nope';

And for some reason, for any given word it returned with "nope" which means that pspell_check returned false

Any idea how to fix this?

Edit:

When trying to retrieve the length of the results:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="he">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
@foreach($suggestions as $suggestion)
    {{ strlen($suggestion) }} <br>
@endforeach
</body>
</html>

The result is:

1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1

Which means that maybe the returned results from pspell_suggest method had problem retrieving the data from the aspell dictionary?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 121

Answers (2)

kfirba
kfirba

Reputation: 5441

Since every word check returned with the same results it got me suspected that maybe the value that is being passed to the pspell_suggest function is corrupted.

What I did was simply tell pspell to use UTF-8:

$t = pspell_new('he', "", "", "utf-8");

This solved the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Marcin Orlowski
Marcin Orlowski

Reputation: 75645

This looks like encoding issue. You should be using UTF-8 for the HTML content (check your page <head> and check if you set encding, BUT also you must populate your page with content encoded in the same UTF-8. If (which can often happen) your PHP file is not UTF8 then you will have encoding mismatch and � instead.

Upvotes: 0

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