ispell/hunspell: Invalid coding system: iso8859-1

ispell/hunspell: Invalid coding system: iso8859-1

[djc]

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

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(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)
      )

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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.

djc

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.)

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

[djc]

Thanks a million, Eli -- that seems to have done it.  I was certainly misled by the "SET ISO8859-1" in en_US.aff.

djc