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.
Uses
Software with Hunspell support:
Name Type Group Method Notes Chrome Web browser Google ? Chromium Web browser Google ? 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
License Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.
See also
Hungarian spellcheckers GNU Aspell Enchant Ispell MySpell Pspell Virastyar
References
External links
OpenOffice.org spelling dictionaries OpenOffice.org Lingucomponent project Release notes of OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Mozilla bug report: Replace MySpell with HunSpell Obtaining and Using Hunspell Compatible Dictionaries with XMetaL Author