Re: [aspell-user] aspell problems

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:

> > 1) If the user has an existing aspell configuration, specifying language,
> >    the build could fail: I had specified "american" as the language and
> >    removed the previous aspell installation (as I've known the aspell
> >    build process not to be clean before - it would happily link new
> >    binaries with the old libraries). When aspell was run during the
> >    build process to create these dictionaries, it failed - complaining
> >    that the "american" file couldn't be found. IMHO, aspell shouldn't
> >    look for external info during build.
> 
> Could you give me some more detail.  It shouldn't be doing this.

I had "lang american" in my .aspell.conf (which worked fine), then
removed aspell in order to build the new aspell (I've experience bad
linking before unless I do that, and pspell also has broken build
process. Possibly because of the libtool branch.). When aspell builds,
it will then fail when creating the dictionaries.
 
> > 2) --lang doesn't seem to work. I have LANG=no_NO set, and
> >    "aspell --lang=american -c brit.txt" uses the Norwegian dictionary.
> >    Using the environment variable is nice, but command line options
> >    or configuration files should take precedence (I just tried the
> >    configuration file now, with the same results)
> 
> The option you want to use is --language-tag=en_US or --master=american
> (or -d american) not --lang=american. 

The "aspell --help" says

  --lang=<str>                default language to use

for --lang, nothing for --language-tag (which also strikes me as less
intuitive, and   

"-d,--master=<str>           main word list base name"


> The --lang tag should only really
> be used when creating dictionaries.  It will also work when selecting a
> dictionary but only if the language of that name exists, the "american" is
> not an Aspell language ("english" is).

There is an american.multi, and since American differ slightly from
English ("color" vs. "colour"), American is IMHO the language which
should be specified.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.