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.
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.
01Uses
Software with Hunspell support:
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Web browser | ? | ||
| Chromium | Web browser | ? | ||
| Empathy | Instant messaging | , | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Issue selecting dictionaries Enchant |
| Firefox | Web browser | Mozilla | ? | , |
| Illustrator | Vector graphics | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | , |
| InDesign | Desktop publishing | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since CS5.5 |
| gedit | Text editor | GNOME | Dynamically-linked libenchant via GtkSpell | , |
| GroupWise | , | Starting in version 2012 | ||
| JetBrains IDEs | Integrated development environment | JetBrains | , | ReSharper & IDEs use Hunspell dictionaries |
| .NET | , | |||
| Origyn Web Browser | Web browser | , | Dynamically-linked spellchecker.library | Since 3.12 |
| Perl | , | |||
| QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing | Quark Software Inc. | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since QuarkXPress 2017 |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing | , | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Since 1.4.2 |
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
02License
Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.
Sources and credits
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