[Aspell-user] en_NZ locale causes no dictionaries to work

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[Aspell-user] en_NZ locale causes no dictionaries to work - how to work around it?

Koz Ross

2016-02-13 01:17:52 UTC

I'd like to get Aspell to work in my Emacs, because spellchecking is
awesome and useful. However, I've never gotten Aspell to work because
of my locale (en_NZ) not having a dictionary. How could I work around
this? I don't mind using a (for example) en_GB dictionary if that's
what it takes, but how would I set this up?

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Robert Iakobashvili

2016-02-14 06:44:47 UTC

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Dear Koz,
In you dictionary location you could find text file
en_GB.multi

Copy it to the file named en_NZ.multi in the same directory.

It may make the trick.

If not, copy all other files with names starting from en_GB-* to en_NZ*

They are mostly text configuration files, so it's easy to understand
what they are doing.

Kind regards,
Robert

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I'd like to get Aspell to work in my Emacs, because spellchecking is
awesome and useful. However, I've never gotten Aspell to work because
of my locale (en_NZ) not having a dictionary. How could I work around
this? I don't mind using a (for example) en_GB dictionary if that's
what it takes, but how would I set this up?
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Koz Ross

2016-02-14 09:14:37 UTC

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Hi Robert,

Thank you for that - I will try it. Will I have to repeat this step
every time I update aspell, or will once be enough?
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Koz Ross

2016-02-15 00:45:00 UTC

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Where would I find the dictionaries? I am on Parabola GNU/Linux-libre,
and 'aspell dump dicts' yields me nothing. Aspell was installed as a
dependency for another package, so I never configured it to do anything.
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Robert Iakobashvili

2016-02-15 04:59:34 UTC

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run find command
Kind regards,
Robert

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and 'aspell dump dicts' yields me nothing. Aspell was installed as a
dependency for another package, so I never configured it to do anything.
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Kevin Atkinson

2016-02-15 07:17:47 UTC

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It is most likely in "/usr/lib/aspell". To command:

aspell dump config dict-dir
aspell dump config data-dir

Will let you know where Aspell expects to find the dictionary and/or
data files.

For a full dump of the config use "aspell dump config".

Post by Robert Iakobashvili
run find command
Kind regards,
Robert

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