On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:06:39AM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 at 23:05, Agustin Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Things like castellano8 are the traditional emacsen names for some entries,
> > defined in ispell.el function `ispell-dictionary-base-alist'. You may
> > expect
> > documents setting language to one of those entries, and is good if they get
> > the right result.
> >
>
> I'm a bit confused now. Does aspell understand the name "castellano8"? If
> so, how does it know about it? If not, presumably Emacs translates the name
> into one that aspell understands?
They are originally emacs-only stuff, mapped to a hash for the different
spellcheckers. Original castellano8 entry in ispell.el
`ispell-dictionary-base-alist' does this by passing ("-B" "-d"
"castellano").
For aspell, besides "aspell dump dicts" output, there are other possible
aliases, in Debian aspell-es those include "castellano" and "castellano8".
castellano was added to match original ispell name used for people having
that in their ~/.emacs file. I do not think there is an aspell option
listing all those aliases.
--
Agustin
