Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 122618
Spell checking for emacs passes wrong names for language specific dictionaries
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: Spellchecking from emacs doesn't work in the Dutch language. The "Tools - Spellchecking" menu in emacs lists choices "Nederlands" and "Nederlands8" but then an error is returned: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/nederlands" can not be opened for reading. $ rpm -ql aspell-nl /usr/lib/aspell/dutch.alias /usr/lib/aspell/nl.multi /usr/lib/aspell/nl.rws /usr/share/aspell/nl.dat So actually, aspell should be called with a reference to "dutch", not "nederlands" since that is what the file in the aspell distribution is called (actually, as a workaround 'ln -s dutch.alias nederlands.alias seems to work). When investigating, similar problems showed up for french (emacs calls for 'francais'), whereas English and German are ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-7 aspell-0.50.3-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start emacs 2. select from the menu "tools" the item "spell checking" and select as language "Nederlands" (or "Francais") 3. go back to this same menu and selct "spell check buffer" or any of the other entries which actually starts aspell Actual Results: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/nederlands" can not be opened for reading. Expected Results: spellchecking on the current file or buffer Additional info: Note: I tried the same in a fully updated Fedora Core 2 test 3, with the same results.
Bug is still present in Fedora Core 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-12 aspell-0.50.3-19.1
Thanks for the report and your patience. Applying a patch for dutch, spanish and portuguese in 21.3-15. AFAICT current aspell-fr has francais.alias so it should be ok I think.
*** Bug 147964 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 166286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Spanish is broken in emacs-21.4-7, apparently because aspell changed it back `spanish.alias', removing `castellano' (that emacs uses) as a valid alias :-(
So just to be clear, this is a new issue with FC devel, ie FC4 is ok? I'm still a little confused since I don't see any changes related to this. I suggest to close this bug though and re-open the new one, unless the original fix was wrong.
I hadn't tried FC4, but now I have, and it's just as broken. castellano.alias does not exist, and spanish is what emacs should expect to find. I'm closing this bug and reopening the new one.