| Hunspell | |
| Developer: | László Németh |
| Operating System: | Cross-platform |
| Genre: | Spell checker |
| License: | GNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License |
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.
Software with Hunspell support:
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Web browser | ? | [1] | ||
| Chromium | Web browser | ? | |||
| Empathy | Instant messaging | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Issue selecting dictionaries Enchant[2] | ||
| Firefox | Web browser | Mozilla | ? | ||
| Illustrator | Vector graphics | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | ||
| InDesign | Desktop publishing | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since CS5.5[3] | |
| gedit | Text editor | GNOME | Dynamically-linked libenchant via GtkSpell[4] | ||
| GroupWise | Starting in version 2012[5] | ||||
| JetBrains IDEs | Integrated development environment | JetBrains | — | ReSharper[6] & IDEs use Hunspell dictionaries[7] [8] | |
| .NET | [9] | ||||
| Origyn Web Browser | Web browser | Dynamically-linked spellchecker.library | Since 3.12 | ||
| Perl | [10] | ||||
| QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing | Quark Software Inc. | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since QuarkXPress 2017[11] | |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Since 1.4.2[12] | ||
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.
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 agglutinative language 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.[13]