ispell-french does not function on GNU Emacs 22.1.1

[NAGATA Yoshihisa]

How to reproduce the bug:

0. Please prepare any text file written in French.
(iso-8859-1 or utf-8)
1. Open the file with Emacs.
2. Choose "Select Francais Dict" from the menu-bar.
3. Do "Spell-Check Buffer"
4. Then, you will have the error message below in
the mini-buffer:
Invalid regexp: "Range striding over charsets"

I thank you in advance for your help.

Yoshi Nagata

P.S.
1. This bug does not appear with command-line ispell.
2. Ispell-french worked with the GNU Emacs 21.3.1. (on openSUSE 10.2)

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In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2007-10-05 on dede
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--with-gcc' '--with-pop' '--without-
hesiod' '--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-leim' '--with-xim' '--
with-system-malloc' '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--
mandir=/usr/share/man' '--localstatedir=/var' '--
sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-
sound' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-
png' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--x-includes=/usr/include' '--x-
libraries=/usr/lib:/usr/share/X11' '--build=i586-suse-linux-
gnu' 'build_alias=i586-suse-linux-gnu' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i586 -
mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -
g -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing     -D_GNU_SOURCE   -Wno-pointer-sign 
         -Wno-unused-variable    -Wno-unused-label  -
DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000     -
DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' 'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ja_JP.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: LaTeX

Minor modes in effect:
  reftex-mode: t
  outline-minor-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <tools> <spell> <francais> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <tools> <spell> <ispell-buffer> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading byte-opt...done
Loading preview...done
Applying style hooks... done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Local Ispell dictionary set to francais
Starting new Ispell process [francais] ...
Spell checking francais.tex using ispell with francais dictionary...
Spell-checking using ispell with francais dictionary done
ispell-get-line: Invalid regexp: "Range striding over charsets"
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