2008-08-15 Hunspell 1.2.7  Source (763 kB) and release notes  Other files  Dictionaries  Bug Reports  Manual

Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird.

Main features:

• Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
• Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data.
• Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
• Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
• C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
• Interfaces and ports: Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), OpenXSpell (Mac OS X Enchant port), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, Python, Ruby ([1], [2]), UNO.

Primary project sponsor: FSF.hu Foundation

Primary sponsor: IMEDIA Media Monitoring

Primary sponsor of the Hunspell development in 2003–2005: Budapest Technical University Media Research Centre (BME MOKK)

László Németh (e-mail: nemeth at OO.o)
FSF.hu Foundation, Hungary