bug#19558: ispell in 24.4: hunspell cannot check German text

[Heinz Rommerskirchen]

Am 10.01.2015 um 19:27 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:02:53 +0100
> > From: Heinz Rommerskirchen <heinz@h-rommerskirchen.de>
> >
> > When using hunspell ispell cannot check German texts.
> >
> >   .....
> > 'hunspell --version' gives
> >   > $ hunspell --version
> >   > @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.2)
>
> If this is an unpatched version 1.3.2 of Hunspell, then that's
> probably a known problem with Hunspell: it reports byte offsets of
> misspelled words rather than character offsets, something that Emacs
> doesn't expect.
>
> There are patches in the Hunspell bug tracker to fix this problem.
>
> FWIW, your test case works flawlessly for me in Emacs 24.4 with
> Hunspell 1.3.2 patched to fix that problem (and a few others).

Thank you, Eli. I think you are right. Too lazy to search for the 
patches, I installed the newest version (1.3.3) from the source code
at it's homepage and it works as it should for both German and English.

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