Re: [h-e-w] Can't open affix or dictionary flies

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:35:16 +0100
> From: Oliver Jones <address@hidden>
> 
> I have trouble getting spellchecking to work with Emacs 24.2.1 and Hunspell 
> 1.3.2 on Windows XP.
> 
> I have read the help about spelling in the built in manual and searched the 
> internet where I 
> found advice to include these lines to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
> 
> (setq ispell-dictionary-alist
>     '((nil ; default
>        "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
>        ("-d" "C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene 
> Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
>       ("english"
>        "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
>        ("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8)
>       ("german"
>        "[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
>        ("-d" "'C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene 
> Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami'" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
                ^                                                               
                   ^
Those single quotes inside double quotes look suspicious.  They don't
belong to the file name.

Also, you don't need "-i" "utf-8" in the list of arguments, since that
is the default.

Finally, I'd suggest to use dictionary names that are identical to the
file names, i.e. "de_DE_frami" instead of "german" etc.  Then you
could simply use nil for all the switches (assuming you install the
dictionaries in the directory where hunspell expects to find them).