diff -up emacs-24.2/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el.hunspell emacs-24.2/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el

--- emacs-24.2/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el.hunspell	2013-01-21 18:45:01.743335126 +0100

+++ emacs-24.2/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el	2013-01-21 18:51:02.082010837 +0100

@@ -572,6 +572,40 @@ re-start Emacs."

 		       (coding-system :tag "Coding System")))

   :group 'ispell)

+(defvar ispell-hunspell-dictionary-equivs-alist

+  '(("american"      "en_US")

+    ("brasileiro"    "pt_BR")

+    ("british"       "en_GB")

+    ("castellano"    "es_ES")

+    ("castellano8"   "es_ES")

+    ("czech"         "cs_CZ")

+    ("dansk"         "da_DK")

+    ("deutsch"       "de_DE")

+    ("deutsch8"      "de_DE")

+    ("english"       "en_US")

+    ("esperanto"     "eo")

+    ("esperanto-tex" "eo")

+    ("finnish"       "fi_FI")

+    ("francais7"     "fr_FR")

+    ("francais"      "fr_FR")

+    ("francais-tex"  "fr_FR")

+    ("german"        "de_DE")

+    ("german8"       "de_DE")

+    ("italiano"      "it_IT")

+    ("nederlands"    "nl_NL")

+    ("nederlands8"   "nl_NL")

+    ("norsk"         "nn_NO")

+    ("norsk7-tex"    "nn_NO")

+    ("polish"        "pl_PL")

+    ("portugues"     "pt_PT")

+    ("russian"       "ru_RU")

+    ("russianw"      "ru_RU")

+    ("slovak"        "sk_SK")

+    ("slovenian"     "sl_SI")

+    ("svenska"       "sv_SE")

+    ("hebrew"        "he_IL"))

+  "Alist with matching hunspell dict names for standard dict names in

+  `ispell-dictionary-base-alist'.")

 (defvar ispell-dictionary-base-alist

   '((nil

@@ -1106,9 +1140,57 @@ aspell is used along with Emacs).")

 		    ispell-encoding8-command)

 	       ispell-aspell-dictionary-alist

 	     nil))

+	  (ispell-dictionary-base-alist ispell-dictionary-base-alist)

 	  ispell-base-dicts-override-alist ; Override only base-dicts-alist

 	  all-dicts-alist)

+      ;; While ispell and aspell (through aliases) use the traditional

+      ;; dict naming originally expected by ispell.el, hunspell

+      ;; uses locale based names with no alias.  We need to map

+      ;; standard names to locale based names to make default dict

+      ;; definitions available for hunspell.

+      (if ispell-really-hunspell

+	  (let (tmp-dicts-alist)

+	    (dolist (adict ispell-dictionary-base-alist)

+	      (let* ((dict-name (nth 0 adict))

+		     (dict-equiv

+		      (cadr (assoc dict-name

+				   ispell-hunspell-dictionary-equivs-alist)))

+		     (ispell-args (nth 5 adict))

+		     (ispell-args-has-d (member "-d" ispell-args))

+		     skip-dict)

+		;; Remove "-d" option from `ispell-args' if present

+		(if ispell-args-has-d

+		    (let ((ispell-args-after-d

+			   (cdr (cdr ispell-args-has-d)))

+			  (ispell-args-before-d

+			   (butlast ispell-args (length ispell-args-has-d))))

+		      (setq ispell-args

+			    (nconc ispell-args-before-d

+				   ispell-args-after-d))))

+		;; Unless default dict, re-add "-d" option with the mapped value

+		(if dict-name

+		    (if dict-equiv

+			(nconc ispell-args (list "-d" dict-equiv))

+		      (message

+		       "ispell-set-spellchecker-params: Missing hunspell equiv for \"%s\". Skipping."

+		       dict-name)

+		      (setq skip-dict t)))

+

+		(unless skip-dict

+		  (add-to-list 'tmp-dicts-alist

+			       (list

+				dict-name      ; dict name

+				(nth 1 adict)  ; casechars

+				(nth 2 adict)  ; not-casechars

+				(nth 3 adict)  ; otherchars

+				(nth 4 adict)  ; many-otherchars-p

+				ispell-args    ; ispell-args

+				(nth 6 adict)  ; extended-character-mode

+				(nth 7 adict)  ; dict encoding

+				))))

+	      (setq ispell-dictionary-base-alist tmp-dicts-alist))))

+

       (run-hooks 'ispell-initialize-spellchecker-hook)

       ;; Add dicts to ``ispell-dictionary-alist'' unless already present.