Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Rob Browning]

Minor fix for Emacs 21.2 reported to Debian.

Thanks

David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> writes:

> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.1-7
> Tags: Woody
> Severity: normal
>
> According to /usr/share/doc/ingerman/README.Debian, new german
> orthography dictionaries "german*" were renaimed to
> "ngerman*"/"ndeutsch*", which keeps Emacs21 from finding them.
>
> I suggest you hack emacs or add code to the system-wide emacs startup
> scripts to fix that.  Not everybody might want to read emacs sources or
> ingerman documentation to get it work...  
>
> Excerpt of /usr/share/doc/ingerman/README.Debian:
>
> [...] you have to extend the ispell-dictionary-alist by the following
> entries:
>
>    ("ndeutsch"                          ; ngerman.aff
>     "[a-zA-Z\"]" "[^a-zA-Z\"]" "[']" t ("-C") "~tex" iso-8859-1)
>    ("ndeutsch8"
>     "[a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
>     "[^a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
>     "[']" t ("-C" "-d" "ngerman") "~latin1" iso-8859-1)
>
> BTW that README.Debian says, that Emacs doesn't have by default support
> for new german orthography dictionaries. As of Emacs 21.? that's not
> true any more.
>
> David Kühling

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