Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: hunspell-1.3.3-1

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 8/29/2015 1:15 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/28/2015 2:34 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution:
> >
> > * hunspell-1.3.3-1
> > * libhunspell1.3_0-1.3.3-1
> > * libhunspell-devel-1.3.3-1
> > * hunspell-en-2015.08.24-1
> >
> > Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and
> > program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex
> > compounding or character encoding.
>
> hunspell seems to have a problem with UTF-8:
>
> $ hunspell
> error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback
> error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback
> error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback
> error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback
>
> I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my environment.  If I unset LANG, the error message
> goes away.

The problem seems to be that /usr/share/myspell/en_US.aff starts with "SET UTF8" 
 Changing that to "SET UTF-8" fixes it.  The same problem exists in the other 
en_*.aff files.

Ken



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