1 files changed, 3 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 0c4aeb1bd24..4565d369371 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -1074,45 +1074,15 @@ Protects against bogus binding of `enable-multibyte-characters' in XEmacs."
       (decode-coding-string str (ispell-get-coding-system))
     str))
 
-(put 'ispell-unified-chars-table 'char-table-extra-slots 0)
-
-;; Char-table that maps an Unicode character (charset:
-;; latin-iso8859-1, mule-unicode-0100-24ff, mule-unicode-2500-34ff) to
-;; a string in which all equivalent characters are listed.
-
-(defconst ispell-unified-chars-table
-  (let ((table (make-char-table 'ispell-unified-chars-table)))
-    (map-char-table
-     #'(lambda (c v)
-         (if (and v (/= c v))
-             (let ((unified (or (aref table v) (string v))))
-               (aset table v (concat unified (string c))))))
-     ucs-mule-8859-to-mule-unicode)
-    table))
-
-;; Return a string decoded from Nth element of the current dictionary
-;; while splice equivalent characters into the string.  This splicing
-;; is done only if the string is a regular expression of the form
-;; "[...]" because, otherwise, splicing will result in incorrect
-;; regular expression matching.
-
+;; Return a string decoded from Nth element of the current dictionary.
 (defun ispell-get-decoded-string (n)
   (let* ((slot (assoc ispell-dictionary ispell-dictionary-alist))
          (str (nth n slot)))
     (when (and (> (length str) 0)
                (not (multibyte-string-p str)))
       (setq str (ispell-decode-string str))
-      (if (and (= (aref str 0) ?\[)
-               (eq (string-match "\\]" str) (1- (length str))))
-          (setq str
-                (string-as-multibyte
-                 (mapconcat
-                  #'(lambda (c)
-                      (let ((unichar (aref ucs-mule-8859-to-mule-unicode c)))
-                        (if unichar
-                            (aref ispell-unified-chars-table unichar)
-                          (string c))))
-                  str ""))))
+      (or (multibyte-string-p str)
+          (setq str (string-to-multibyte str)))
       (setcar (nthcdr n slot) str))
     str))