Re: A question about spellchecker

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:07:57 +0200
> Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> 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" .
> 
> Emacs has no problems with swedish chars in text-buffer itself, but in
> characters in stream it gets back from hunspell.
> 
> I have checked that encoding of file and LANG variable all use same encoding
> as the dictionary itself.
> 
> In image1 can be seen how it treats word *omvärld* (for world) .
> I am not sure if this is a bug, or I am just not aware of correct setting. I have
> tryed to google around for solution but I haven't found any good answers.
> 
> I am using a development version of Emacs:
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.4.50.2 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
> 
> Are bug-reports  welcome since it is not official version of emacs?

It's not a real problem.  Please tell where you got that Swedish
dictionary, and please try using the UTF-8 encoding instead of 8859-1.