Vscode-spell-checker: Include german language

[ghost]

Is was wondering if it would be possible to include more languages in the standard configuration? The dictionaries are there, it would be just a matter of packaging them.
I am using vs code as a LaTeX editor and a good german spell checking is just what i am missing.

[Jason3S]

Try this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cspell-dict-de-de

You will need to tell the spell checker to use it:
In your project settings:

"cspell.language": "en,de"

or in cSpell.json file:

"language": "en,de"

[ghost]

Thank you, for your fast response.
Sadly i am not familiar with nodejs or javascript development and i am sure many other people would be pleased if you could include common dictionarys (french, russian, german, spanish e.g.) by default in the extension.
I don't think it would increase the size of this nice piece of software too much and it would be a great addition for writing markdown/LaTeX files.

[d2s]

@flocomkoko Including a basic German dictionary would increase the size of extension by at least 4 MB, so that generally might not make sense to do by default.

• cspell-dicts repository shows what things there are in the German dictionary.

Node.js & tools distributed via npm can be installed easily,
without need to know anything about JavaScript itself.

• Quick guide: Installing Node.js with nvm to Linux & OS X

After installing the Node itself, run these two commands in your computer's command line terminal:

npm install -g cspell-dict-de-de

After that, follow the instructions of the Spell Checker's documentation. You can either add the settings to VS Code's global settings, or have project-specific custom adjustments.

[ghost]

Oh, i see.
Now it works very well on my end, 4 MB would be indeed too much.
Thank you for your help.

[Jason3S]

You still bring up a good point. I am looking into making VS Code add-on extensions for each of the common languages. This would make installing them much easier.

[ghost]

That would be a really nice and easy solution.