I have trouble getting spellchecking to work with Emacs 24.2.1 and Hunspell 1.3.2 on Windows XP.
I have read the help about spelling in the built in manual and searched the internet where I found advice to include these lines to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
(setq ispell-dictionary-alist
'((nil ; default
"[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
("-d" "C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
("english"
"[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8)
("german"
"[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[^a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]" "[']" t
("-d" "'C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene Dateien\\dictionaries\\de_DE_frami'" "-i" "utf-8") nil utf-8)
("british"
"[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
("-d" "en_GB") nil utf-8)))
(eval-after-load "ispell"
(progn
(setq ispell-dictionary "german"
ispell-extra-args '("-a" "-i" "utf-8") ; aspell doesn't understand -i utf-8, hunspell needs it
ispell-silently-savep t)))
(setq ispell-program-name "C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\ojones\\Eigene Dateien\\hunspell-mingw-1.3.2-win32\\bin\\hunspell.exe")
where I made changes regarding the path to the affix and dictionary files and the hunspell.exe.
I verified that hunspell works, by executing it on the command line.
When I type M-x ispell in emacs I get the following error message
Can't open affix or dictionary flies for dictionary named "german".
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.2)
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.2)
I tried changing the path to the affix and dictionary files in my init.el to just the name of the affix and dic name, i.e. "de_DE_frami" since hunspell knows where to find them, but it didn't help in emacs.