[Bugs] #3666 Words UNSP: Encoding error in Portuguese, French and German, Italian

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#3666: Encoding error in Portuguese, French and German, Italian
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    Reporter:  humitos                    |          Owner:  cjb                        
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Words                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Changes (by cjl):

 * cc: dirakx, cjl (added)


Comment:

 I think the IDP file format (where the Words word lists are derived from)
 is only capable of ASCII representation:

 http://www.june29.com/IDP/IDPfileformat.html


 There are some strange hacks described in order to get diacritic marks
 "encoded" in this ACSII format.  The use of ASCII by Words should
 obviously be replaced by Unicode and the diacritic mark hacks in the word
 lists modified.

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