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mattiav27
Asked: 2019-08-02 23:20:41 +0800 CST

aspell - Error No word lists can be found for the language

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I am trying to use aspell to spell check a PDF file; I run the command:

aspell -c file.pdf

but I get the error:

Errore: No word lists can be found for the language "it_IT".

My file is written in english: how can I tell this to aspell?

spell-checking

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use --lang flag:

    aspell --lang=en_US -c file.pdf

    or:

    LANG=en_US aspell -c file.pdf

    From man aspell:

    --lang=<string>, -l <string>
               Language to use. It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code and an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or underscore. The default value is based on the value of the LC_MESSAGES locale.

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