Created attachment 514921 [details] Sample text with accents (md5sum f91f52b0ae84fd91aa25e0d671228a23) Description of problem: When using emacs / hunspell to spell-check a UTF-8 encoded text file, emacs chokes on some accented letters, with the error message: Ispell error: UTF-8 encoding error. Missing continuation byte in 0. character position: Spell-checking testtext.txt using hunspell with default dictionary...done ispell-process-line: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-23.2-19.fc15.i686 using hunspell-1.2.15-2.fc15.i686 hunspell-en-0.20110112-4.fc15.noarch How reproducible: Always on my netbook with Fedora 15 for i686. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a text file with accented characters, e.g. the attached test case. 2. Start spell-check in emacs (after making sure that aspell is not installed, so that emacs will use hunspell.) 3. Actual results: Error message as above. Expected results: Correct spell-checking session... Additional info: This does not happen with aspell. It also does not happen when spell-checking files using hunspell on the command line. For some other files, the error message was: "this UTF-8 encoding can't convert to UTF-16" Using "enter debugger on error" on the text file, the following appears in *Backtrace* (with byte code removed): Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) ispell-parse-output(#("ël!" 0 3 (charset iso-8859-1)) nil 0) ispell-process-line("^Titre: noël!\n" nil) byte-code("....310\311!\210)\312\313....") ispell-region(1 38) ispell-buffer() call-interactively(ispell-buffer nil nil)
ispell.el has the code to find the spell checker program out though, it doesn't update ispell-dictionary-base-alist according to the result. it should be optimized against it. Here is what my .emacs has and I want English spell checker only: (setq ispell-dictionary-base-alist '((nil "[[:alpha:]]" "[^[:alpha:]]" "[']" nil ("-d" "en_US") nil utf-8))) (eval-after-load "ispell" (progn (setq ispell-extra-args '("-a" "-i" "utf-8") ispell-silently-savep t))) It work well here.
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This is still happening on Fedora 18. I respectfully disagree with the CLOSED-WONTFIX status. This is a major feature that doesn't work out of the box. The proposed solution doesn't work in my box, and the relevant sections of the built-in help and the info documentation say nothing about having to configure additional things to make it work or how. I request that the bug be opened and a solution be worked out, either in code or as a *working* note in the documentation.