setting ispell-local-dictionary to "de-alt" does not work if mule-ucs is not installed.
Messages if trying to spell-check is: Starting new Ispell process [de-alt] ... ispell-get-word: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Probably ispell.el needs some functionality from mule-ucs to do conversion between encoding. As far as I understand mule-ucs should no longer be needed with emacs, so ispell should not depend on it. In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-04-18 on luthien Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--enable-font-backend' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2'' 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: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-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 global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <help-echo> C-h a b u g <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x 0 M-x r e p o <tab> <backspace> o r t <tab> <return> Recent messages: Loading calendar... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading calendar...done Loading cl-seq...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. [2 times] Loading apropos...done Type C-x 1 to remove help window. Type C-x 4 C-o RET to restore the other window. Making completion list... Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug