diff --git a/hunspell-de.nobuildhash.patch b/hunspell-de.nobuildhash.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4370416..0000000
--- a/hunspell-de.nobuildhash.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- igerman98-20070829/Makefile.orig	2007-08-30 10:56:38.000000000 +0100
-+++ igerman98-20070829/Makefile	2007-08-30 10:57:15.000000000 +0100
-@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
- #ZIP_OPTS = -j -r -9 -X
- ZIP = 7z
- ZIP_OPTS = a -tzip -mx=9
--BUILDHASH = buildhash
-+BUILDHASH = true
- 
- ISPELL = ispell
- HUNSPELL_BIN = hunspell
diff --git a/hunspell-de.spec b/hunspell-de.spec
index e123fc2..93b23ac 100644
--- a/hunspell-de.spec
+++ b/hunspell-de.spec
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ Name: hunspell-de
 Summary: German hunspell dictionaries
 %define upstreamid 20090107
 Version: 0.%{upstreamid}
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Source: http://www.j3e.de/ispell/igerman98/dict/igerman98-%{upstreamid}.tar.bz2
 Group: Applications/Text
 URL: http://www.j3e.de/ispell/igerman98
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 License: GPLv2 or GPLv3
 BuildArch: noarch
-BuildRequires: aspell-en, hunspell
-Patch1: hunspell-de.nobuildhash.patch
+BuildRequires: aspell, hunspell
+Patch1: igerman98-20090107-useaspell.patch
 
 Requires: hunspell
 
@@ -19,19 +19,17 @@ German (Germany, Switzerland, etc.) hunspell dictionaries.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n igerman98-%{upstreamid}
-%patch1 -p1 -b .nobuildhash.patch
+%patch1 -p1 -b .useaspell.patch
 
 %build
 make hunspell/de_AT.dic hunspell/de_AT.aff \
      hunspell/de_CH.dic hunspell/de_CH.aff \
      hunspell/de_DE.dic hunspell/de_DE.aff
 cd hunspell
-tr -d '\r' < README_de_AT.txt > README_de_AT.txt.new
-tr -d '\r' < README_de_CH.txt > README_de_CH.txt.new
-tr -d '\r' < README_de_DE.txt > README_de_DE.txt.new
-mv -f README_de_AT.txt.new README_de_AT.txt
-mv -f README_de_CH.txt.new README_de_CH.txt
-mv -f README_de_DE.txt.new README_de_DE.txt
+for i in README_*.txt; do
+    iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.new
+    tr -d '\r' <$i.new > $i
+done
 
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -61,6 +59,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/myspell/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 23 2009 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 0.20090107-2
+- fix dictionaries
+
 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 0.20090107-1
 - latest version
 
diff --git a/igerman98-20090107-useaspell.patch b/igerman98-20090107-useaspell.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b64f25d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/igerman98-20090107-useaspell.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff -ru igerman98-20090107-ispell/Makefile igerman98-20090107/Makefile
+--- igerman98-20090107-ispell/Makefile	2009-04-23 11:40:50.000000000 +0100
++++ igerman98-20090107/Makefile	2009-04-23 11:41:48.000000000 +0100
+@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
+ 	# sed hack to merge /f/g to /fg : sed "s:/\(.*\)/:/\1:"
+ 	cat $$(WORDS_BLACKLISTS_$(1)) $$(WORDS_BLACKLISTS_de_all) >$$@
+ 
+-hunspell-capmain-plus_$(1).tmp: ispell/$(1)_null.aff ispell/$(1)_null.hash hunspell/$(1)_small.dic hunspell/$(1)_small.aff $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_$(1)) $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_de_all)
++hunspell-capmain-plus_$(1).tmp: aspell/$(1).dat aspell/$(1)_affix.dat hunspell/$(1)_small.dic hunspell/$(1)_small.aff $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_$(1)) $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_de_all)
+ 	echo DEBUG: WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_$(1) :: $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_$(1)) :::
+ 	echo DEBUG: WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_de_all :: $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_de_all) :::
+ 	# limited dictionary of *-xx* files containing compounds not generated by capmain-small
+@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
+ 	#find dicts/ -name "*-xx*.txt" -print | xargs cat >> $$@.unfiltered-list.tmp
+ 	echo $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_$(1)) $$(WORDS_CAPMAIN_PLUS_de_all) | xargs cat >> $$@.unfiltered-list0.tmp
+ 	./bin/myspellfixprefix.pl < $$@.unfiltered-list0.tmp | (test -e ./bin/conv_dict_$(1) && ./bin/conv_dict_$(1) || cat) | grep -v '^$$$$' > $$@.unfiltered-list.tmp
+-	cat $$@.unfiltered-list.tmp | $(ISPELL) -d./ispell/$(1)_null -e > $$@.unfiltered-list-expanded.tmp
++	cat $$@.unfiltered-list.tmp | $(ASPELL) --lang=$(1) --local-data-dir=./aspell expand > $$@.unfiltered-list-expanded.tmp
+ 	$(SED) -f ./bin/dic2iso < $$@.unfiltered-list-expanded.tmp |$(SED) "s/qq//g" | $(NL) | $(HUNSPELL) -d hunspell/$(1)_small -L > $$@.unknown.tmp
+ 	$(SED) "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$$$$/\1/" $$@.unknown.tmp > $$@.list-unknown-lines.tmp
+ 	./bin/extractlines.pl $$@.list-unknown-lines.tmp $$@.unfiltered-list.tmp > $$@.tmp