GNU bug report logs - #25825
25.1; ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries not working on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: S W <sw9 <at> outlook.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 25825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:27:27 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:01:21 -0700
> Cc: sw9 <at> outlook.com, 25825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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?

It's OK, but wouldn't it be more helpful if we added something like

  (is $LANG unset?)

to the error message text?
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