On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:54:50PM +0100, Mats Lidell wrote: > 2013/12/23 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; > > > > > It can be both! I have a 75% merged ispell.el sitting around, which I > > should > > finish and commit. > > > > Well I have similar problems with the native swedish chars åäö. I'm running > XEmacs with locale sv_SE.utf8 but according to the suggested spellings when > checkling a word with åäö in it somewhere another encoding seems to be > introduced. In the ispell-dictionary-alist "svenska" is listed as > iso-8859-1. Do I have a bad configuration or is there a bug here? Will your > fixed ispell.el handle this case? I have $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 and for me ispell-dictionary-alist has non-utf charsets for all languages as well.