E763 with vim and spell checker

Question

I want to add germand spell checking to vim. So I set

:set spl=de_de spell

then there is a dialogue, where I can create a directory called .vim/spell. And then there is another question where I can download a .spl file. And again for a .sug file. But when I download both files I get an error

Fehler beim Ausführen von "~/.vim/spell/de.utf-8.spl":
E763: 'Word Characters' unterscheiden sich zwischen Rechtschreibwörterbüchern

But despite the error I can use the spell checking and even the suggestion works.

Also I could not :mksp my own .spl-file from myspell, cause it wouldn't read the .dic-file. And I deleted the spelldirectory and retried it. Nothing worked.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '13 at 13:33

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Debian wheezy:

sudo apt-get install vim-scripts # Needed for spell downloading script
sudo rm /usr/share/vim/vim73/spell/*.sug /usr/share/vim/vim73/spell/*.spl
sudo vim

now trigger downloading in vim:

set spell spelllang=en,de,OR_WHATEVER_LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT

et voilà, you will get perfectly working spell files for all users.

(If you only want them for the current user, skip the sudo before calling vim or, change the installation directory to /home/YOUR_USER/.vim/spell.)

edited Aug 29 '13 at 13:33

Anthon

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answered Aug 29 '13 at 12:34

MyChaOS

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Thanks, that really helped! So there seems to be a conflict between the already installed (Fedora Linux) en.spl or en.sug files with the downloaded german/spanish/… files. – erik Jul 09 '15 at 17:56

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '12 at 12:39

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I had a similar issue (same errormessage) and I guess, it was due to a compatibility-problem. The spell files I used (installed in .vim/spell) were from an older installation of vim and when I updated vim, I got this error. I solved it by using the vim spell files provided by my distribution -- in my case Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S vim-spell-de

answered Aug 27 '12 at 12:39

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Unfortunately there is no such packet for ubuntu. – pirad Aug 27 '12 at 16:58
had the same message, this helped. when moving from ubuntu to arch I had simply copied my old spell files. after removing .vim/spell, the message disappeared. – ilprincipe Nov 23 '12 at 19:23

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 03 '12 at 14:29

I had the same problem with a self-compiled Vim 7.3.729 on Windows/x64. As the spell files at http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/de/ haven't been updated yet, I solved this in the following way:

download the Arch Linux package mentioned in skunk's answer from https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/vim-spell-de/
Extract the spell files from the vim-spell-de-20120506-1-any.pkg.tar.xz file (7Zip can unpack them).
Overwrite the 4 files de.{latin1,utf-8}.{spl.sug} in ~/.vim/spell/

E763 with vim and spell checker

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