Yes, I did contact SoftMaker, but they were not able to help. Here is the thread:Have you tried posting this problem at the Softmaker forum? I can't see them not being interested after all, sie sind Deutsche!
<http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopi ... 358#p43358>
I pm'ed the support person working on this with the new information and a reference to this thread, but have not heard back.
I checked the libhunspell versions involved. libhunspell-1.2 is used in Pups that have the problem and ones that don't. Precise 5.4.2 has libhunspell-1.3 and the umlaut problem.
The de.aff files in the Opera hunspell (which works flawlessly) and the freeoffice hunspell both list the same code page: SET ISO8859-1
So, I am still stumped.
edit 1: Corrected url of forum thread. Sorry, couldn't get the tags to work.