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I'm trying to check spelling some words in Russian using "hunspell" library in R.

bad_words <- hunspell("Язвенная болзень", dict='ru_RU.dic')

I have installed Russian dictionary, from here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/hunspell-ru/ It has encoding UTF-8. However, I have following error:

Failed to convert line 1 to ISO8859-1 encoding. Try spelling with a UTF8 dictionary.

It seems strange, neither dict nor R file don't have encoding ISO8859-1... What is the problem?

Павел Ситников
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If you are operating on Windows, my first guess would be that this is related to the lack of native UTF-8 support in R on Windows. This will be resolved when R4.2 is released; you might wish to try using the development release and seeing whether the problem persists.

Another thing to check is whether your DESCRIPTION file contains the line Encoding: UTF-8, such that your source files are treated as having this encoding.

Martin Smith
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