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author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Mon Jun 29 15:09:16 2020 +0100 (2020-06-29)
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1 Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
2 designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or
3 character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Ispell-like terminal interface using
4 Curses library, Ispell pipe interface, C++ class and C functions.
6 Hunspell's code base comes from the OpenOffice.org MySpell.
7 Hunspell is designed to eventually replace Myspell in OpenOffice.org.
9 Main features of Hunspell spell checker and morphological analyzer:
11 - Unicode support (affix rules work only with the first 65535 Unicode
12 characters)
13 - Morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style) and stemming
14 - Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative
15 languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
16 - Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
17 - Support language specific features (for example, special casing of Azeri
18 and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
19 - Handle conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words,
20 pseudoroots and homonyms.
21 - Free software. Versions 1.x are licenced under LGPL, GPL, MPL tri-license.
22 Version 2 is licenced only under GNU LGPL.