Subject: bug#45311: ispell: Can’t find Hunspell dictionary with a .aff affix file

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:11:01 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Why is a default dictionary required at all? The function should be able
>> to work without one.
>
> Does it help to say
>
>   M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET en_GB RET
>
> ?
>
> The default dictionary is needed because when we invoke the speller
> for the first time, we must tell it which dictionary to use.  If you
> want it to use en_GB although your locale is en_US, one way that I
> think should work is to copy the en_GB-ize.* files to default.* in the
> directory where you keep the Hunspell dictionaries.

There doesn't seem to be anything to do here, then, and I'm closing this
bug report.

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