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Hunspell

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Developer(s)
  
László Németh

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Written in
  
C++

Type
  
Spell checker

Stable release
  
1.6.0 / December 22, 2016 (2016-12-22)

Repository
  
github.com/hunspell/hunspell

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.

Contents

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

Hunspell is the spell checker of:

Hunspell is also used by the following which need to be included in the list above:

  • Apache Solr 3.5 and later
  • Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later
  • DéjàVuX3, Computer Aided Translation (CAT) system
  • Evernote, note taking software.
  • lite version for JavaScript.
  • LyX, a document processor
  • .NET,
  • Novell Groupwise starting in version 2012
  • OmegaT, an open-source computer-assisted translation tool
  • Perl,
  • SoftMaker Office (in addition to its built-in spell checker), a cross-platform office suite
  • Sublime Text
  • SDL Trados Studio world-leading software for computer-assisted translation by SDL
  • Subtitle Edit a freeware subtitle creator/editor program
  • The Bat! email client by RITLABS S.R.L. since version 4.0
  • WinShell, an integrated development environment (IDE) for TeX and LaTeX on Windows
  • XMetaL, an XML authoring application (in addition to its built-in spell checker that supports 30 languages)
  • XTuple, a cross-platform enterprise resource planning application

    • License

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

    References

    Hunspell Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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