Hi, on our AMD64 machines with SuSE 9.2, ispell fails: ,---- | miracle:~$ (set -x; uname -a; cat /etc/SuSE-release; ispell -a -m -C -d deutsch) | + uname -a | Linux miracle 2.6.8-24.5-default #1 Wed Nov 17 11:10:06 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux | + cat /etc/SuSE-release | SuSE Linux 9.2 (x86-64) | VERSION = 9.2 | + ispell -a -m -C -d deutsch | Illegal format hash table | miracle:~$ echo $? | 1 `---- The American and British dictionaries work correctly. Therefore, I suspect that it is a problem with non-ASCII characters. Any hints? ,---- | miracle:~$ for i in american british deutsch francais espanol; do | (set -x; echo "hello foobar"|ispell -a -m -C -d $i); done | +echo 'hello foobar' | +ispell -a -m -C -d american | @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 08/01/01 | * | # foobar 6 | | +echo 'hello foobar' | +ispell -a -m -C -d british | @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 08/01/01 | * | # foobar 6 | | +echo 'hello foobar' | +ispell -a -m -C -d deutsch | Illegal format hash table | +echo 'hello foobar' | +ispell -a -m -C -d francais | Illegal format hash table | +echo 'hello foobar' | +ispell -a -m -C -d espanol | Illegal format hash table `---- The same versions and setup works correctly on 32 machines: ,---- | rabbit:~$ (set -x; uname -a; cat /etc/SuSE-release; ispell -a -m -C -d deutsch) | + uname -a | Linux rabbit 2.6.8-24-default #1 Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux | + cat /etc/SuSE-release | SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) | VERSION = 9.2 | + ispell -a -m -C -d deutsch | @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 08/01/01 | Hallo Hihu | * | # Hihu 6 `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/