[tlug] ispell replacement that will handle unicode (long o in Japanese )

[David Riggs <dariggs@example.com>]

I love ispell, especially the easy way it can be invoked from emacs. But 
it chokes on my unicode diacritics, like long o and u in Japanese 
romanization.
I have been stumbling along using spell check in Mozilla composer to 
spot the error and going back to emacs to change it. What a pain.
Is there some way to do this in emacs, or at least from a command line. 
It would be nice if it would also automatically skip kanji and markup 
(anything in < > like ispell does.)
Thanks folks,

David Riggs, Kyoto