[Alpine-info] Set language for spelling

[Carlos E. R.]

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On Friday, 2012-05-18 at 13:11 -0000, David Bonde wrote:


> I use hunspell for spellchecking in Alpine. The problem is that I write 

> e-mails in several different languages and as far as I can tell, I can't 

> change the language for the spell checking unless I chnage how hunspell 

> is invoked in Alipne's configuration screen.


I do it with a script.

First I define the setting in alpine:

    Speller            = alpine_aspell


Then I have the script "/usr/local/bin/alpine_aspell":

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Aspell: Select language: (US) UK ES FR " -s -n 1
case $REPLY in
      2|[Uu]) opts=( -l en_GB.UTF-8 ) ;;
      3|[Ee]) opts=( -l es_ES.UTF-8 ) ;;
      4|[Ff]) opts=( -l fr_FR.UTF-8 ) ;;
      *)      opts=( -l en_US.UTF-8 ) ;;
esac
exec aspell ${opts[@]} -e -c $1

You just have to edit the script to add languages.


This was done with help from people in this mail list:


Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:53:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Carlos E. R. <>
To: Alpine-alpha <alpine-alpha at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Alpine-alpha] feature request: choose language for spell-check, dynamically.

or

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:42:32 +0200 (EET)
From: Iosif Fettich <>
To: Alpine Forum List <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Alpine-info] Managing a few different spell-checkers



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Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
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