Sublime Text 3 (and 2): newly installed dictionaries do not work
dictionary, sublimetext3, text
Solution
In addition to Joshua Dunn answer, check that the first line of the `.aff` file is
`SET UTF-8`
For future reference, my workflow to add dictionaries to ST3 is:
To add a new language:
Download the language file from the appropiate OpenOffice extension
Rename the "some.oxt" file to "some.zip"
Unzip the file
Look for two files: "lang.aff" and "lang.dic". For example `es_ES.aff` and `es_ES.dic`
Open the "lang.aff" to check the encoding used. Such the line: `SET ISO-8859-1`
Convert that file to UTF-8 from the used encoding
Convert "lang.dic" to UTF-8 from the used encoding.
Change `SET ISO-8859-1` to `SET UTF-8`
In ST3, click on Preferences -> Browse Packages
Create a new folder, for example `Language - Spanish`
Move lang.dic and lang.aff to that folder
Activate the dictionary in ST3 (View -> Dictionary -> Language - Spanish -> es_ES)
Press `F6` to enable spell check
adapted from the github repo for SublimeText/Dictionaries
Problem
I'm a well-experienced mac user but no programmer. I'm playing with Sublime Text 3 (and 2) to work with LaTeX. I installed the German dictionaries from https://github.com/SublimeText/Dictionaries. All of them except the AT version (German, DE, CH - installed all three files each, .aff, .dic, .txt, 9 files total). Downloaded and put them in the right folder. Yes, I can select them under View -> Dictionary -> Language - German -> German (German_de_DE, German_de_CH) Yes, spell checking is enabled. To test I create a file with Haus (German correct) haus (German incorrect) dog (en correct dooog (en incorrect) With the English dictionary active everything is underlined red except "dog". With the German dictionary activated EVERYTHING is underlined red as wrong. (Everything I type in German remains marked wrong). This is true for all three installed German dictionaries. And for both ST3 and ST2. I'm at the end of my wits here. Can anyone help?