Hunspell
Hunspell
Spell checker for complex languages
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.
| Developer(s) | László Németh |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Spell checker |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License |
| Website | hunspell |
Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries.
Software with Hunspell support:
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Web browser | ? | [2] | |
| Chromium | Web browser | ? | [2] | |
| Empathy | Instant messaging | — | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Issue selecting dictionaries Enchant[3] |
| Firefox | Web browser | Mozilla | ? | — |
| Illustrator | Vector graphics | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | — |
| InDesign | Desktop publishing | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since CS5.5[4] |
| gedit | Text editor | GNOME | Dynamically-linked libenchant via GtkSpell[5] | — |
| GroupWise | — | Starting in version 2012[6] | ||
| .NET | — | [7] | ||
| Origyn Web Browser | Web browser | — | Dynamically-linked spellchecker.library | Since 3.12 |
| Perl | — | [8] | ||
| QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing | Quark Software Inc. | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since QuarkXPress 2017[9] |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing | — | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Since 1.4.2[10] |
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.
Hunspell was developed by the Hungarian biologist and free software developer László Németh. His recent job as a lead programmer is related to also free software, especially to LibreOffice. He contributes for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice, as a code contributor since 2002 (spell checking, hyphenation etc.). He also contributes and makes patches for Hunspell spell checker with Unicode, compound word and agglutinative language support; Unicode and non-standard hyphenation; thesaurus component with stemming and suffixation; Lightproof grammar checker; Graphite versions of Linux Libertine and Biolinum fonts with extended typographical capabilities.[11]
- "Release v1.7.2". 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- Shankland, Stephen. "Google augments open-source spell-check". CNET. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- Sumner, Kevin (7 October 2009). "Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language". Ubuntu—empathy package. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- Sousa, Miguel (5 November 2011). "How to enable more languages in InDesign CS5.5".
- "GtkSpell". SourceForge. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- "GroupWise 2012". Novell. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- "NHunspell - Free Spell-Checker, Hyphenation and Thesaurus for .NET". Crawler-Lib. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- "Text-Hunspell-2.16 - Perl interface to the Hunspell library". MetaCPAN. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- Lamy, Arnaud (14 August 2018). "Professional Spell Checker XTension for QuarkXPress".
- "1.4.2 Release". Scribus Wiki. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- "Laszlo Nemeth — English". conference.libreoffice.org. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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