Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[Peter Flynn]

I can't seem to find any mention in the FAQ or on web sites about how to 
change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English to 
British English (permanently), and it doesn't seem to be a config option 
in the Emacs menus. I'm using Emacs 23 as shipped with Ubuntu 10.4 and 
the only check I run is M-x ispell-buffer RET

Or is this something that has to be configured externally, in some 
ispell config?

///Peter

Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[Andreas Politz]

Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> writes:

> how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English
> to British English (permanently)

M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB

Pick the-right-one and put

(setq ispell-dictionary "the-right-one")

in your init-file.

-ap

Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[suvayu ali]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote:
> I can't seem to find any mention in the FAQ or on web sites about how to
> change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English to British
> English (permanently), and it doesn't seem to be a config option in the
> Emacs menus. I'm using Emacs 23 as shipped with Ubuntu 10.4 and the only
> check I run is M-x ispell-buffer RET
>

Earlier en_GB used to work but now you have to set something like this:

(setq ispell-dictionary "british")

or use customize:

M-x customize-variable RET ispell-dictionary RET

and choose.

> ///Peter
>

Hope this helps

-- 
Suvayu

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Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2011 um 23:06 schrieb Peter Flynn:

> I can't seem to find any mention in the FAQ or on web sites about  
> how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American  
> English to British English (permanently), and it doesn't seem to be  
> a config option in the Emacs menus.


It's an option for your init file:

	(setq ispell-program-name "ispell")
	(setq ispell-dictionary "english")

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   Pete

"Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have  
'arguments' - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM."

Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[Peter Flynn]

On 08/03/11 23:57, Andreas Politz wrote:
> Peter Flynn<peter@silmaril.ie>  writes:
>
>> how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English
>> to British English (permanently)
>
> M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB

Interesting. That gives me a choice of american or default. Only.

Easy to fix, but I would have expected a recent Ubuntu (10.4) where 
en-GB was specified to have installed ispell correctly.

> Pick the-right-one and put
>
> (setq ispell-dictionary "the-right-one")

Finding the right name was the trick, many thanks.

And thanks to all those who responded.

///Peter

Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[David Combs]

In article <8tq8t7FqdnU1@mid.individual.net>,
Peter Flynn  <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote:
>On 08/03/11 23:57, Andreas Politz wrote:
>> Peter Flynn<peter@silmaril.ie>  writes:
>>
>>> how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English
>>> to British English (permanently)
>>
>> M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB
>
>Interesting. That gives me a choice of american or default. Only.
>
>Easy to fix, but I would have expected a recent Ubuntu (10.4) where 
>en-GB was specified to have installed ispell correctly.
>
>> Pick the-right-one and put
>>
>> (setq ispell-dictionary "the-right-one")
>
>Finding the right name was the trick, many thanks.
>
>And thanks to all those who responded.
>
>///Peter

So please clue us in too -- just what did you find?

(So others can do the same thing, without all the grief
that you went through.

And maybe even it can go into the manual/info? )

Thanks,

David