From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4878 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2014 20:15:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 4864 invoked by uid 89); 16 Oct 2014 20:15:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:15:31 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id s9GKFT5s010787 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:15:29 -0400 Received: from [128.84.234.253] (dhcp253.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id s9GKFSbo031971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:15:29 -0400 Message-ID: <5440275F.90107@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:15:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: Emacs: ispell fails References: <1413472902.98561.YahooMailNeo@web185405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1413472902.98561.YahooMailNeo@web185405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple