Jiang Qian wrote:
Hi all:
I love the new spell check features. I usually write in English, which
is why I set my spellchecker to en-us. However I sometimes write in
Chinese, which AFAIK has no vim spell checker. So every time I write
something it will underline it. Of course I can manually write
:set nospell
to disable spellchecker every time I write in Chinese, but is there an
more intelligent way by which vim somehow know part of the paragraph is
written in Chinese and skip them? I recall spellchecker plugin I used
before doesn't seem to be bothered by my writing some Chinese.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Jiang
The 'spell' option is local-to-window. You can set it (for any file, but
not just part of it) by means of a modeline (q.v.), for example
<HTML><HEAD>
<!-- vim: set nospell :-->
at the top of an HTML file, or
--
Best regards,
Jiang Qian
-----
vim:nospell
at the bottom of an email. As the latter example shows, there may be a
problem if the filetype doesn't allow "comments" and you don't want the
modeline to be seen. (In an email, you could create a custom header, but
not all mail clients allow it.)
The EncodingChanged event cannot be used IIUC, since it applies to the
global 'encoding' option, not to the local 'fileencoding'. Anyway, UTF-8
can be used for both English and Chinese, so in this case I don't
recommend using the charset as a criterion.
If you have a file in _mixed_ language (part of the file in English and
another part in Chinese), then I don't know if (or how) Vim can
spell-check only the "English" paragraphs. It might be as simple as
excluding anything in the "Chinese" part of the Unicode range from
spell-checking altogether.
Best regards,
Tony.
