Emacs: ispell fails

[Ken Brown]

On 10/16/2014 11:21 AM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
> ispell-message and ispell-region fail in Emacs with the following
> message:
> ==
> Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with default dictionary...
> ispell-init-process: Error: The encoding "nil" is not known. This could also mean that the file "/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nil.cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.
> ==

They work for me.

> The file, /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nil.cset, indeed does not exist.
> Should it?

No.  /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ contains files *.cset corresponding to valid 
encodings.  The question is why aspell thinks the encoding is "nil".  My 
guess is that something in your initialization files is causing this. 
Do you still have the problem with 'emacs -Q'?

Ken

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