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I write my LaTeX documents using Vim with the vimtex plugin, and for the most part Vim's spell-checker satisfies my needs. However, I am being quite frustrated by the fact that it does not seem to recognise words with diacritical marks, for example the name
Jarn\'{i}k
is treated as Jarn and k. In summary, is there a way to force Vim's spell-checker to treat a word with diacritical marks as a whole word?
My suggestion is to enter the text already encoded as UTF-8 and then to instruct vim to accept other than, or additional languages to English for the spell check.
With the following example containing two intentional errors:
Kiti didieji miestai: Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys.
This is correct, but here is an errror
L'école se situe en face de l'hôtel Bienvennu
the default correction by set spell is the following
This may be changed, e.g. to check only for French by :set spell spelllang=fr:
or to check simultaneously for multiple languages. Altogether with Lithuanian, the command here is :set spell spelllang=lt,fr,en. Note the list is without a blank after the comma:
This is how to add new dictionaries to the checker: As an example, for Spanish, call set spell spelllang=es. This opens a dialogue to fetch the corresponding .spl with wget to be stored in the path of .vim/spell. There are languages with multiple definitions, e.g. British English / US English.
\v) from the keyboard is much more convoluted.
Jarník(i.e., using utf-8 encoding in your files), it works for me out-of-the box withvimtex(and I suppose anyvimplugin).\v) from the keyboard is much more convoluted. I guess I should have mentioned it in the question, but that is why I formulated it in terms of LaTeX-style diacritics, so to speak.