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* doc/emacs/fixit.texi (Spelling): Document spell-checking
multi-lingual text with Hunspell.
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@ -450,6 +450,30 @@ dictionary is specified by the variable
spelling program looks for a personal dictionary in a default
location, which is specific to each spell-checker.
@cindex spell-checking different languages
@cindex language for spell-checking
Usually, a dictionary used by a spell-checker is for a specific
language. The default language is determined from your system's
environment and locale. Both the standard dictionary and your personal
dictionary should be changed if you want to spell-check text in a
different language. You can use the @code{ispell-change-dictionary}
command for that.
@cindex spell-checking multi-lingual text
@findex ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic
Hunspell is special in that it supports spell-checking using several
different dictionaries in parallel. To use this feature, invoke the
@kbd{M-x ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic} command before you start using
Hunspell for a particular combination of dictionaries. This command
prompts for the dictionary combination, which should be a
comma-separated list of language-specific dictionary names, such as
@samp{en_US,de_DE,ru_RU}. Thereafter, you can spell-check text which
mixes these languages without changing the dictionaries each time.
(Caveat: when several languages use the same script, it is possible that
a word that is mis-spelled in one language is found as a valid spelling
in the dictionary of another language; in that case, the mis-spelled
word might be missed.)
@vindex ispell-complete-word-dict
A separate dictionary is used for word completion. The variable
@code{ispell-complete-word-dict} specifies the file name of this