Re: Can't open affix or dictionary flies

Oliver Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.windows
Message-ID <27940_1358179765_ZZi0d7eXH6HHc.00_50F42DB4.4060401@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>
Am 14.01.2013 16:58, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:32:30 +0100
>> From: Oliver Jones<[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>>
>> Am 11.01.2013 20:17, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>>> Did you type
>>> "M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET de_DE_frami RET" to change to this
>>> dictionary?
>>
>> Yes, that is exactly what I did.
>>
>>>
>>> Also, where did you get the de_DE_frami dictionary?
>>
>> I got it from here:
>> http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-de_DE_frami
>>
>>> And how exactly is hunspell invoked for this dictionary after you invoke
>>> ispell-change-dictionary as above (look in Process Explorer or some
>>> equivalent)?
>> After "M-x list-processes RET" I get this:
>>
>> Process: ispell
>> Status:  run
>> Buffer:  --
>> TTY:     --
>> Command: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\...\hunspell.exe -a  -d de_DE_frami -r -i utf-8
>
> The de_DE_frami.aff file clearly says that its encoding is ISO 8859-1:
>
>    SET ISO8859-1
>
> So you need to arrange for Emacs to use latin-1 with this dictionary,
> not utf-8.

Thanks a lot! Now it works.
I didn't know that such information is found in the affix file. It's great to have people like 
you out there. :-)
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