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25.1; ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries not working on Windows

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Message #35 received at 25825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sw9 <at> outlook.com, 25825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25825: 25.1;
 ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries not working on Windows
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:01:21 -0700

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Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> It seems to be an issue with my environment.  I've been using this for a
> very long time:
>
>     $ locale
>     LANG=

So, I looked into all my locale stuff again, and it turns out that $LANG
was unintentionally left unset here for boring reasons.  (There is no
reason to leave $LANG unset.)

> One idea to improve the situation on our end is to look for "Can't
> open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named 'default'." and
> raise a better error in these cases.

I think it's better to raise the more helpful error.

How does the attached diff look?

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