> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:21:32 +0200
> From: agustin.martin@hispalinux.es
> To: arthur.miller@live.com; emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: A question about spellchecker
> 
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:39:11PM +0200, arthur miller wrote:
> 
> > > > I have found what is problem with emacs and hunspell on my computer. 
> > > > It does not seem tounderstand charset och stream it gets back from hunspell. 
> > > > It can actually spell all words not containing swedish characters (öäå) with 
> > > > swedish dictionary. When pressing with right mouse I get a pop-up with 
> > > > word suggestions, where all swedish characters are missinterpretted. 
> > > > 
> > > > If I press M-$ (spell-word) I get message
> > > > 
> > > > "ispell-word: Ispell and its process have different character maps" .
> > (after 'ispell
> >   (message "loading spellchecker")
> >   (defvar *load-start* (current-time))
> >   (defun anarcat/time-to-ms (time)
> >     (+ (* (+ (* (car time) (expt 2 16)) (car (cdr time))) 1000000) (car (cdr (cdr time)))))
> > 
> >   (add-to-list 'ispell-dictionary-alist '(("svenska"
> >                        "[A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
> >                        "[^A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
> >                        "[']"
> >                        nil
> >                        ("-d" "sv_SE")
> >                        t
> >                        utf-8)
> >                       ("svenska8"
> >                        "[A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
> >                        "[^A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
> >                        "[']"
> >                        nil
> >                        ("-B" "-d" "sv_SE")
> >                        t
> >                        utf-8)
> >                       ("english"
> >                        "[[:alpha:]]"
> >                        "[^[:alpha:]]"
> >                        "[']"
> >                        t
> >                        ("-d" "en_US")
> >                        nil
> >                        utf-8)))
> > 
> 
> You should not need this at all. emacs24 should auto-detect available
> hunspell dictionaries and offer them as possible choices when calling
> `ispell-change-dictionary', doing proper communication in UTF-8 and using
> [:alpha:] as you do for english (change that in your .emacs and see what
> happens). 
> 
> I'd also doucle-check encoding for above diacritics, making sure they are
> UTF-8 encoded as you declare them (but better use [:alpha:] as proposed
> above).
> 
> Does this problem appear if you use automatically generated entries?
> 
> -- 
> Agustin

Thanks for repaly and for information; I didn't know that Emacs 24 is updated
to find spellcheckers and configure settings on its own. 

Unfortunately it does not work for me. If I remove that list I get following error:

" Starting new Ispell process hunspell with en_US dictionary...
ispell-get-decoded-string: No data for dictionary "en_US", neither in `ispell-local-dictionary-alist' nor in `ispell-dictionary-alist' "

However I have changed the list according to your instructions for diacritics to :alpha: and it works fine with Elis hunspell from ezwinport.

thanks for help all