Wow, that worked. So, is there no way I can change my Locale within Emacs prior to loading ispell? On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 07:47 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Didier > > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 01:12:02 -0700 > > Cc: 32471@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > If I run hunspell -D from the command line, I get: > > > > SEARCH PATH: > > .;;C:\Hunspell\;C:\Users\didibus\.openoffice.org > \3\user\wordbook;C:\Users\didibus\hunspell\bin\..\share\hunspell;C:\Program > > files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\dict\ooo\;C:\Program files\OpenOffice.org > 2.3\share\dict\ooo\;C:\Program > > files\OpenOffice.org 2.2\share\dict\ooo\;C:\Program files\OpenOffice.org > 2.1\share\dict\ooo\;C:\Program > > files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\dict\ooo\ > > AVAILABLE DICTIONARIES (path is not mandatory for -d option): > > C:\Users\didibus\hunspell\bin\..\share\hunspell\default > > C:\Users\didibus\hunspell\bin\..\share\hunspell\en_GB > > C:\Users\didibus\hunspell\bin\..\share\hunspell\en_US > > Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "ENU". > > > > I got the windows port of hunspell from here: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ > > > > When I do ispell-change-dictionary to en_US it says: (match required), > and nothing happens. > > > > This is the content of my c:\Users\didibus\hunspell\share\hunspell > folder: > > > > README_en_GB.txt > > README_en_US.txt > > default.aff > > default.dic > > dictionary.lst > > en_GB.aff > > en_GB.dic > > en_US.aff > > en_US.dic > > Copy en_US.* files into corresponding ENU.* files, and your problem is > likely to go away. > > > By the way, it seems I can get it to work if I add the following to my > init file: > > > > (setq ispell-dictionary "en_US") > > (setq ispell-dictionary-alist > > '(("en_US" "[[:alpha:]]" "[^[:alpha:]]" "[']" > > t ("-d" "en_US" "-p" > "C:\\Users\\didibus\\hunspell\\share\\hunspell\\en_US.aff") nil utf-8))) > > Yes, but that shouldn't be necessary if you configure Hunspell for > your locale (which is ENU, a.k.a. "en_US"). >