Support for the German letter ß missing?

[kassbohm]

I use:

spelling_lang='de'

and:

sphinx-build -b spelling ...

However: Many German words written with the letter ß are shown as misspelled...

[dhellmann]

This project is really just a wrapper for enchant, so it depends on that tool and its dictionaries. Does enchant report the same words as misspelled when run directly on the file?

[kassbohm]

Thanks for this.

Tested enchant like this:

import enchant

# Does produce spelling mistakes for words with the letter ß:
d = enchant.Dict('de')

# Works fine:
d = enchant.Dict('de_DE')

# Example:
tmp = d.check("heiß") # German word for "hot"
print(tmp)

So from now on I use in my conf.py:

spelling_lang='de_DE'

And it works fine.

[dhellmann]

Excellent, I'm glad you got it working!