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24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell)

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Message #24 received at 24050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, olejorgenb <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent
 dicts (aspell)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:08:26 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> You assume that a dictionary not in the list doesn't exist; but that
> isn't a given.  I've heard enough reports from users who for some
> reason or other bumped into situations where ispell.el couldn't figure
> out correctly what dictionaries are installed.  The standard list
> (which is also customizable) leaves a "fire escape" for those cases.

OK, so aspell/hunspell won't output the real list of dictionaries it has
access to, but find more later when you give them a dictionary name?

ispell.el itself doesn't look around for dictionaries -- it just calls
aspell/hunspell and it outputs the dictionaries (see below).

If the backend is something other than aspell/hunspell, ispell will
still output the entire list of built-in dictionary names.

$ aspell dicts
en
en-variant_0
en-variant_1
en-variant_2
en-w_accents
en-wo_accents
en_AU
en_AU-variant_0
en_AU-variant_1
en_AU-w_accents
en_AU-wo_accents
en_CA
[...]

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