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How do I set up Hunspell so that I can add new UTF-8 words (e.g. "Rúdi") to my user local dictionary?

I have a function that allows me to add new words to my local dictionary. It works for adding new words that don't contain UTF-8 characters. But if a word contains a UTF-8 character, Flyspell doesn't remember that the newly added word is correctly spelled.

Here's my setup:

(executable-find "hunspell") 
(setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell")
(setq ispell-really-hunspell t) 
(setq flyspell-default-dictionary "en_US")

(setq ispell-dictionary "en_US")
(setq ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/hunspell")
(setenv "DICTIONARY" "en_US")


(setq ispell-program-name "hunspell")
(eval-after-load "ispell"
  '(progn (defun ispell-get-coding-system () 'utf-8)))

(setq ispell-local-dictionary-alist '(("en_US" "[[:alpha:]]" "[^[:alpha:]]" "[']" nil nil nil utf-8))) 

(setq ispell-extra-args '("-d en_US"))

(flyspell-mode-on)

(defun add-word-to-personal-dictionary ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((current-location (point))
        (word (flyspell-get-word)))
    (when (consp word)
      (flyspell-do-correct 'save nil (car word) current-location (cadr word) (caddr word) current-location))))

If it matters, I'm running Hunspell 1.3.3 on OSX Yosemite.

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    A small thing: you probably wanted (setq-default ispell-program-name (executable-find "hunspell")) executable-find, if successful, has no side effects, so in your case it doesn't make sense to call it the way you did. – wvxvw Jul 19 '15 at 11:47
  • @wvxvw Wow, thank you. So like this? gist.github.com/incandescentman/00e1be81877514983884 Aside from that does everything look right? – incandescentman Jul 19 '15 at 19:29
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    Yup, like that, and, to my untrained eye it does look alright :) – wvxvw Jul 20 '15 at 5:24
  • Thanks! By the way, do you know how I can view the list of the words I've added to my local dictionary? – incandescentman Jul 20 '15 at 8:13
  • I use aspell so I don't know where hunspell keeps its personal dictionary, but judging from aspell personal dictionary location I'd be looking in the home directory for a file with a .dic suffix. (The aspell dictionary would normally be something like ~/.aspell.en.pws). Also, you can run hunspell -D to ask it to show all known dictionaries, yours will be one of those). – wvxvw Jul 20 '15 at 12:26
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Solved. The problem was that in my dictionary file, en_US.aff, the first line incorrectly said SET UTF8. I corrected it to read SET UTF-8

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