hunspell

hunspellby lmemsm updated November 4, 2011

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding.

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Software Details

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.

Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, Lyx, Opera 10+.

Hunspell interfaces include: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module

Windows users can download the hunspell executable and needed dlls from here:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/
You can use 7zip to extract the files.

Dictionaries are available from http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries