Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 PM: > I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time I try > to run it. The message I get from the shell is: > > $ aspell check foo.txt > .cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell-0.60/ > Aborted (core dumped) > > while from within emacs: > > Starting new Ispell process [default] ... > ispell-init-process: 50 [sig] aspell 4332 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping > stack trace to aspell.exe.stackdump > Unhandled Error: The encoding " > " is not known. This could also mean that the file "/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ > .cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist. > > (the line breaks appear as ^M control characters in emacs). > > Given the message, I was suspicious that this is a locale issue, and set the > (previously unset) environment variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, and LC_ALL to > en_US.UTF-8 (or en_US.ISO-8859-1) but that didn't make a noticeable > difference. > > FWIW, just executing 'aspell --help' works as expected. > > Does this ring any bells?
Looks like foo.txt has Windows line endings; try running 'd2u foo.txt' and then aspell again. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple