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 #49 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, sw9 <at> outlook.com
Cc: 25825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25825: 25.1;
 ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries not working on Windows
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:32:59 -0700
tags 25825 + moreinfo
thanks

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

>> In any case, this cannot be the reason for the OP's problem, because
>> he evidently uses the same version of Hunspell that I do (the
>> ezwinports site is where I upload the ports I use myself).
>
> FWIW, my crystal ball says that OP's problem is a simple cockpit
> error: the OP should copy en_US.aff and en_US.dic to ENU.aff and
> ENU.doc, respectively, and things will start working.  This renaming
> is needed because Windows locales are named using a different naming
> scheme than on Posix hosts.

S W, could you please try the above and see if that resolves your
problem?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas




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