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)
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.diffs
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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)
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 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