emacs-31 69463bfc0c5: ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Problem with Enchant 2.x. (Bug#81330)
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 08:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
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branch: emacs-31 commit 69463bfc0c5cd42bdbbad28aeea84fa205a32383 Author: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Commit: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Problem with Enchant 2.x. (Bug#81330) --- etc/PROBLEMS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 54302968e6d..19172a8b211 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -959,6 +959,16 @@ specified run-time search path in the executable. Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. +*** Using Enchant 2.x as the Ispell back-end signals an error. + +The error message says "enchant-2: Unknown option -C". + +This is because many dictionary definitions in the default value of +'ispell-dictionary-alist' use the '-C' command-line option, which is not +supported by some versions of Enchant 2.x. Support for '-C' was added +to Enchant in version 2.8.17, so use that or later version to solve this +problem. + *** When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error. This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII