Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.49.2 Severity: important I have installed packages aspell and aspell-bg (Bulgarian), and I would like to use aspell to spell check Bulgarian text encoded with iso-8859-5 in Emacs. I have set my ispell-local-dictionary-alist variable to the following:
(custom-set-variables '(ispell-local-dictionary-alist (quote (("bulgarian" "[АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЧШЩЪЬЮЯабвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцшщюя]" "[^АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЧШЩЪЬЮЯабвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцшщюя]" "" nil ("-d" "bulgarian") nil iso-8859-5))))) However, dictionary "bulgarian" does not appear in ispell-dictionary-alist after restarting Emacs. If I add it by hand, using the above settings, ispell and flyspell work correctly and I am able to spell check buffers with the iso-8859-5 encoding. When I install ispell-bulgarian, the Emacs ispell interface permits the Bulgarian dictionary to be added to ispell-dictionary-alist, but since that dictionary is set to use the iso-8859-1 encoding, I still cannot spell check iso-8859-5 buffers. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.52 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction dictionaries-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: * dictionaries-common/default-ispell: american (American English) * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: american (American English) dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false -- "People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation." --seen on Slashdot