Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and

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, originally designed for the

Hungarian language Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian ...

. Hunspell is based on

MySpell MySpell is a spell checker that was formerly included with OpenOffice.org Writer, OOo Writer of the free software, free OpenOffice.org office suite. Since version 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell. Background MySpell was st ...

and is

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with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use

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-encoded dictionaries.

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Software with Hunspell support:

License

Hunspell is

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, distributed under the terms of a

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, 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

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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. CC BY-SA icon

Text was copied from this source, which is available under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
(CC BY-SA 3.0) license. (László Németh is only homonymous with the dentist and writer

László Németh László Németh (18 April 1901 – 3 March 1975) was a Hungary, Hungarian dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist. He was born in Baia Mare, Nagybánya the son of József Németh (1873–1946) and Vilma Gaál (1879–1957). Over the Chr ...

, 1901-1975.)

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OpenOffice.org spelling dictionariesOpenOffice.org Lingucomponent projectMozilla bug report: Replace MySpell with HunSpellObtaining and Using Hunspell Compatible Dictionaries with XMetaL Author
{{Natural Language Processing Free spelling checking programs Spell checkers Language software for Linux Language software for macOS Language software for Windows

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