RE: A question about spellchecker

[arthur miller]

> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:34:05 +0300
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: A question about spellchecker
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
>
> > From: arthur miller <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:07:57 +0200
> > Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> >
> > I have found what is problem with emacs and hunspell on my computer.
> > It does not seem tounderstand charset och stream it gets back from hunspell.
> > It can actually spell all words not containing swedish characters (öäå) with
> > swedish dictionary. When pressing with right mouse I get a pop-up with
> > word suggestions, where all swedish characters are missinterpretted.
> >
> > If I press M-$ (spell-word) I get message
> >
> > "ispell-word: Ispell and its process have different character maps" .
> >
> > Emacs has no problems with swedish chars in text-buffer itself, but in
> > characters in stream it gets back from hunspell.
> >
> > I have checked that encoding of file and LANG variable all use same encoding
> > as the dictionary itself.
> >
> > In image1 can be seen how it treats word *omvärld* (for world) .
> > I am not sure if this is a bug, or I am just not aware of correct setting. I have
> > tryed to google around for solution but I haven't found any good answers.
> >
> > I am using a development version of Emacs:
> >
> > GNU Emacs 24.4.50.2 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
> >
> > Are bug-reports welcome since it is not official version of emacs?
>
> It's not a real problem. Please tell where you got that Swedish
> dictionary, and please try using the UTF-8 encoding instead of 8859-1.
>
I answered your email on the other list, dictionaries are from OpenOffice: http://archive.services.openoffice.org/pub/mirror/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/
I did try to use utf-8, I can copy my settings again:

(after 'ispell
  (message "loading spellchecker")
  (defvar *load-start* (current-time))
  (defun anarcat/time-to-ms (time)
    (+ (* (+ (* (car time) (expt 2 16)) (car (cdr time))) 1000000) (car (cdr (cdr time)))))

  (add-to-list 'ispell-dictionary-alist '(("svenska"
                       "[A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
                       "[^A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
                       "[']"
                       nil
                       ("-d" "sv_SE")
                       t
                       utf-8)
                      ("svenska8"
                       "[A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
                       "[^A-ZÖÄÅa-zöäå]"
                       "[']"
                       nil
                       ("-B" "-d" "sv_SE")
                       t
                       utf-8)
                      ("english"
                       "[[:alpha:]]"
                       "[^[:alpha:]]"
                       "[']"
                       t
                       ("-d" "en_US")
                       nil
                       utf-8)))

  (setq ispell-local-dictionary-alist ispell-dictionary-alist)
  (setq ispell-hunspell-dictionary-alist ispell-dictionary-alist)
  (setq ispell-dictionary "english")
  (setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell")
  (setq ispell-extra-args '("-i" "utf-8"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") 'switch-dictionary-sv-en))

And for Eamcs itself to prefer utf-8

(set-language-environment 'utf-8)
(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)