Re: Problem with flyspell/ispel

[Cecil Westerhof]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  3 May 2018 at 10:24, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> When using gnus the combo flyspell/ispell works without a glitch. I
>> tried to enable it for another mode, but when I open a file of that
>> type I get:
>> (New file)
>> Fill column set to 72 (was 72)
>> Starting new Ispell process aspell with dutch dictionary...
>> Error enabling Flyspell mode:
>> (Error: The encoding "nil" is not known. This could also mean that the
>> file "/usr/lib/aspell/nil.cset" could not be opened for reading or
>> does not exist.)
>
> Maybe you need to define your flyspell-default-dictionary?  I have mine
> set to "british", for instance.

When responding this is nil and in gnus it does work. But I know that
a dictionary is set. So I dig into how this is done.


That uses ispell-local-dictionary. I tried setting ispell-dictionary,
but that did not chang things.

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