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Subject: RE:  locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:34:16 -0500
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Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 PM:
> I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time
I try
> to run it.  The message I get from the shell is:
>=20
> $ aspell check foo.txt
> .cset" could not be opened for reading or does not
exist.lib/aspell-0.60/
> Aborted (core dumped)
>=20
> while from within emacs:
>=20
> Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
> ispell-init-process:      50 [sig] aspell 4332 open_stackdumpfile:
Dumping
> stack trace to aspell.exe.stackdump
> Unhandled Error: The encoding "
> " is not known. This could also mean that the file
"/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/
> .cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.
>=20
> (the line breaks appear as ^M control characters in emacs).
>=20
> Given the message, I was suspicious that this is a locale issue, and
set the
> (previously unset) environment variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, and LC_ALL to
> en_US.UTF-8 (or en_US.ISO-8859-1) but that didn't make a noticeable
> difference.
>=20
> FWIW, just executing 'aspell --help' works as expected.
>=20
> Does this ring any bells?

Looks like foo.txt has Windows line endings; try running 'd2u foo.txt'
and then aspell again.

--=20
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com

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