On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:13:09AM +0200, Sébastien Gendre wrote: > > As the word suggested by ispell where in french, I think the default > dictionary is set to French language (like my system). > > But if, after called `flyspell-mode`, I set the dictionary to fr_FR with I don't have even a shallow knowledge of ispell, so take my advice with care... To me, it looks that whatever is deciding "what is a word" to wrap it up and send it to the spell checker doesn't consider accented characters to be word characters. I would first look at what your current mode "sees as a word". Cheers -- t