Hunspell

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.

Hunspell
Developer(s)László Németh
Stable release
1.7.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 29 December 2022 (29 December 2022)
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeSpell checker
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License
Websitehunspell.github.io

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.

Uses

Software with Hunspell support:

Name Type Group Method Notes
Chrome Web browser Google  ? [2]
Chromium Web browser Google  ? [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

License

Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.

About the author

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]

See also

References
  1. "Release v1.7.2". 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. Shankland, Stephen. "Google augments open-source spell-check". CNET. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. Sumner, Kevin (7 October 2009). "Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language". Ubuntu—empathy package. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. Sousa, Miguel (5 November 2011). "How to enable more languages in InDesign CS5.5".
  5. "GtkSpell". SourceForge. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. "GroupWise 2012". Novell. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  7. "NHunspell - Free Spell-Checker, Hyphenation and Thesaurus for .NET". Crawler-Lib. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  8. "Text-Hunspell-2.16 - Perl interface to the Hunspell library". MetaCPAN. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  9. Lamy, Arnaud (14 August 2018). "Professional Spell Checker XTension for QuarkXPress".
  10. "1.4.2 Release". Scribus Wiki. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  11. "Laszlo Nemeth — English". conference.libreoffice.org. Retrieved 12 June 2020. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.
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