locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

["Josh Berdine" <jjb at microsoft dot com>]

Hi,

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?

Cheers,  Josh

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