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ispell.el: hunspell dicts autodetection under Emacs.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jochen Schmitt <Jochen <at> herr-schmitt.de>
Cc: 13460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13460: Issue to change dictionary when using hunspell on emacs
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:01:53 +0200

> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:25:10 +0100
> From: Jochen Schmitt <Jochen <at> herr-schmitt.de>
> 
> I'm using emacs-24.1 on Fedora 17 (x86_64) and have the following
> isuue. When I want to write an text in enlish I have to change
> the used dictionary with M-x ispell-change-disctionary english.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have to find out, that hunspell doesn't works
> properly after I have changed the dictionary to english.
> 
> My examination show, that emacs will called hunspell in the way
> quoted abouve:
> 
> [s4504kr <at> omega ~]$ hunspell -a  -d english -B -i iso-8859-1
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.2)
> Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "english".
> [s4504kr <at> omega ~]$ exit
> exit
> 
> So It may be nice, if you have an solution for this issue.

You need to install the English dictionary for Hunspell.  I suspect
that its name will be en_US (or maybe en_GB), not "english".

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