ispell language per buffer, not for all buffers

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-22 on kate
configured using `configure  --prefix=/store --with-local-prefix=/store'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: no_NO
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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This is not a bug but a wishlist entry.

I'm using emacs for most of my text editing, and write text both in
English and in Norwegian.  I sometimes work on these texts in
parallel, and would like to use the English ispell dictionary in the
buffer where I edit the English text, and the Norwegian dictionary in
the buffer where I edit the Norwegian text.  When I use M-x
ispell-change-dictionary I change the dictionary for all buffers.
This is no good as I need to change the dictionary every time I start
to write the "other" language.  I want to set the dictionary on a per
buffer basis.  Is this possible?  If not, could someone please
implement it?

(I normally use the flyspell package for spell checking, and the it is
thus fairly annoying when I use the "wrong" dictionary. :-)


BTW: You did good work with the new Emacs.  I was surprised and very
  pleased to discover that gnus now handled UTF incoming-8 email
  without problems.