ispell or aspell (how to change a dictionary in aspell), coding problems

ispell or aspell (how to change a dictionary in aspell), coding problems

[Uwe Brauer via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Hi

I a long time ispell user, but after switching to Ubuntu 24.04 and emacs
29.2, ispell complained about the codification of my private .ispell
wordslist which was in utf8. As Eli told me I should use latin-1 which I
did, but then ispell complained about using latin-1.

So I thought I should give aspell a try

I set ispell-program-name to  "/usr/bin/aspell"


And installed the aspell dictionaries for English, German, French and  Spanish.

However when I wanted to switch to the German dictionary, via
ispell-change-dictionary

no German dictionary was offered (but 65 different versions of English)

The ispell dictionaries are in /usr/lib/ispell
the aspell dictionaries seem to be in /usr/lib/aspell

Any ideas what is wrong?

Regards

Uwe Brauer 


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Re: ispell or aspell (how to change a dictionary in aspell), coding problems

[Joel Reicher]

Uwe Brauer via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> And installed the aspell dictionaries for English, German, 
> French and  Spanish.
>
> However when I wanted to switch to the German dictionary, via 
> ispell-change-dictionary
>
> no German dictionary was offered (but 65 different versions of 
> English)
>
> The ispell dictionaries are in /usr/lib/ispell
> the aspell dictionaries seem to be in /usr/lib/aspell
>
> Any ideas what is wrong?

Is ispell-library-directory set correctly?

Cheers,

        - Joel

Re: ispell or aspell (how to change a dictionary in aspell), coding problems

[Uwe Brauer via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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>>> "JR" == Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
   > <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

   >> And installed the aspell dictionaries for English, German, French
   >> and  Spanish.
   >> 
   >> However when I wanted to switch to the German dictionary, via
   >> ispell-change-dictionary
   >> 
   >> no German dictionary was offered (but 65 different versions of
   >> English)
   >> 
   >> The ispell dictionaries are in /usr/lib/ispell
   >> the aspell dictionaries seem to be in /usr/lib/aspell
   >> 
   >> Any ideas what is wrong?

   > Is ispell-library-directory set correctly?


Ha, no, thanks.

When I set 
ispell-program-name
to /usr/bin/ispell

ispell-library-directory
is set 
to /usr/lib/ispell

But when I set 
ispell-program-name
to /usr/bin/aspell

is set 
to /usr/lib/ispell

To nil

That looks like a bug to me!?




   > Cheers,

   >        - Joel



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I strongly condemn Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine.
I support to deliver weapons to Ukraine's military. 
I support the EU and NATO membership of Ukraine. 


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