Feature request: German language with OLD spelling rules (de-DE-1901)

[Binarus]

At first, thanks a lot for this extension! It works like a charm and is very smart about which code or text sections it should act on.

There's only one thing I am missing: Could you please add a German dictionary for the old spelling rules (sometimes called de-DE-1901)? Something like that, but for your VS Code extension of course:

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/german-de-de-1901-old-spelling-dictionaries

Thank you very much for reading this :-)

[Binarus]

Is there any progress on this?

Just having seen that the label "help wanted" has been added, I would be willing to help, but I have absolutely no experience in that field, so I would need some instructions before I start.

Notably, I would like to know which technology / database you use for the dictionaries. The idea is to let hunspell do the hard work behind the scenes or at least use hunspell's database, because it has the traditional German spelling readily available. But I have absolutely no clue whether this is possible.

Could you give me some pointers on this, or tell me which type of help you need? What can I concretely do to help?

[Jason3S]

Hello @Binarus,

The best way is to create a CSpell dictionary from the Hunspell files. If you download the dictionary from Open Office and extract the file, it is possible to build a CSpell dictionary.

The instructions are here: How to Create a New Dictionary.

If you need help, let me know.