D.1.1 Things that need to be done

These items need to be done before I consider Aspell finished. If you are interested in helping me with one of these tasks please email me. Good C++ skills are needed for most of these tasks involving coding.

• Create a generic filter to handle multi-character letters such as ‘"a’ or ‘\"a’ for ä. This filter should make use of the already exiting normalization code if possible.
• Make Aspell Thread safe. Even though Aspell itself is not multi-threaded I would like it to be thread safe so that it can be used by multi-threaded programs. There are several areas of Aspell that are potentially thread unsafe (such as accessing a global pool) and several classes which have the potential of being used by more than one thread (such as the personal dictionary). [In Progress].
• Enhance ispell.el so that it will work better with GNU Aspell. [In Progress].
• Clean up copyright notices and bring the Aspell package up to GNU Standards. [In Progress].