unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: ramanahouston@outlook.com, 74469@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74469: bug in ispell-buffer
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:14:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5dro488.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9n0TPL_VXSaJwEti-xaS+mFhcaN8uhRD20A4PdzJjYYdoHOQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Robert Boyer on Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:08:18 -0600)

> From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:08:18 -0600
> Cc: ramanahouston@outlook.com, 74469@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Ispell does not support languages whose text cannot be encoded in single-byte encoding, 
> 
> I am shocked!  See:
> 
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
> 
> ispell-program-name => "ispell"
> 
> ispell-current-dictionary => "american"

Using the American English dictionary for spell-checking that language
is hardly useful.  You need to install a dictionary for the language
and the use "M-x ispell-change-dictionary" to switch to that
dictionary.  Only after that the use of ispell-buffer can be expected
to produce useful results.

> I would say that ispell has a bug that is so big that you cannot see that it is a bug!  Should we call such a bug
> a 
> 'continental bug'?

It's a known limitation of Ispell the program.  That program is
obsolete for many years, for that reason.

I suggest to install Hunspell or Aspell, together with the dictionary
for that language, and then Emacs will be able to spell-check this
text.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-22 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-22  5:34 bug#74469: bug in ispell-buffer Robert Boyer
2024-11-22  7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22 10:17   ` Robert Boyer
2024-11-22 11:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22 12:08       ` Robert Boyer
2024-11-22 12:14         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-11-22 12:27       ` Robert Boyer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=86a5dro488.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=74469@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=ramanahouston@outlook.com \
    --cc=robertstephenboyer@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).