Re: ispell/hunspell: Invalid coding system: iso8859-1

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
> 
> I'm trying to make hunspell work in "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)" under Win7. It must be something small, but so far I'm stumped.
> 
> Hunspell is set up in the ordinary way, and I've installed several dictionaries under hunspell\share\hunspell, including en_US.aff (whose first line is "SET ISO8859-1") and en_US.dic. My initialization code includes
> 
> ================
> 
> (setq ispell-local-dictionary-alist
>     '((nil
>         "[[:alpha:]]"
>         "[^[:alpha:]]"
>         "[']"
>         t
>         ("-d" "en_US" "-p" "E:\\Util\\hunspell\\share\\hunspell\\personal.en")
>         nil
>         iso8859-1)
> 
>       ("american"
> 
>         "[[:alpha:]]"
>         "[^[:alpha:]]"
>         "[']"
>         t
>         ("-d" "en_US" "-p" "E:\\Util\\hunspell\\share\\hunspell\\personal.en")
>         nil
>         ISO8859-1)
>       )
> 
> ================
> 
> When I explicitly set the dictionary to "american" and then invoke ispell in a buffer, it returns "Invalid coding system: iso8859-1".
> 
> What have I overlooked or what have I set up wrong? Many thanks for help.

iso8859-1 is not a coding system, you want iso-8859-1 instead.

(Actually, with Hunspell you want UTF-8.)