* Blind guess: Was the original code filed as latin1 or utf8?
What exactly do you mean? I think this may be something to do with it.
I have just tried again. This time my .emacs file contained only the following:
---------------------
(debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry
'("british+accs"
"[A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
"[^A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
"[']"
nil
("-B" "-d" "british-w_accents")
nil
iso-8859-1)
"aspell")(setq ispell-dictionary-alist debian-ispell-dictionary-alist) ----------------------
and I tried to run ispell-buffer on a Latin1 encoded file containing (shouldn't matter what the encoding of the file is, though, should it? Emacs takes care of this...).
---------------------- r�le
Local Variables: ispell-program-name: "aspell" ispell-local-dictionary: "british+accs" End: ----------------------
and it gave the error I complained about before.
