Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #305688, revision 10 Title: system wide spellchecker (hunspell) openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Description: - Why Hunspell? MySpell is not developed for quite a long time either in - Mozilla and in OpenOffice.org. Hunspell is a fork of MySpell, it has - great improvements is several ways, and fully backward compatible with - MySpell. 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. * GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ + Why Hunspell? + MySpell is not developed for quite a long time either in Mozilla and in + OpenOffice.org. Hunspell is a fork of MySpell, it has great + improvements is several ways, and fully backward compatible with + MySpell. 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. + * GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell + http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ Fedora project: - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary Ubuntu - project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs I also find a - reference in the wishlist: http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Various + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary + Ubuntu project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs + I also find a reference in the wishlist: + http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Various Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354554 Discussion: #2: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2009-02-06 19:21:04) In general, I think that it makes sense to have one system speelchecker (disk space savings, easier maintainability, shared user-specific- dictionary between applications, ...). I do not know the implementation details but I heard from more sides that hunspell was the best choice. It seems that Fedora and Ubuntu are going to use hunspell for this purpose => we could resuse their solution OpenOffice.org has already used the system hunspell since openSUSE- 11.1. It used the internal hunspell long time before. #3: Petr Gajdos (pgajdos) (2009-02-10 18:02:44) I don't have any objections. But there are plenty of packages that depends on aspell-devel, aspell or ispell. Question is if this is real dependency or not. For example gtkspell had fake dependency on aspell- devel, because it is linked againist enchant wrapper in fact. Many of them are real, though -- they must be reworked then. #4: Scott Couston (zczc2311) (2009-02-10 21:36:17) Apart from the purely technical aspect, Myspell offers very very poor English US and slightly better English UK suggestion choice and is hugely dependent on the user getting the first two letters correctly spelt speelt spellt in the word that is mispellt. - English is such a poorly constructed language when it comes down to conventions that always apply. There is very little logic in the English Language so without * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data. * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation MySpell is very poor. - The other notable drag with the very very poor UK dictionary that still gets confused between US/UK words - and there is a huge difference. Quite often I cut and past into Open Office as the spell checker and word choice offerings are just so much better - in every sense. I would love to see us use the same spell checker and language modules that Open Office use so we can stop relying on other dictionary modules being developed and make use of the continual development that is done for us by OO. - Love the 1 dictionary, love the continuity idea, but rather than reinvent dictionary modules can we not use OO and its spell checker process. #5: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2009-02-11 11:35:57) (reply to #4) I see that we have started to use hunspell in OpenOffice.org by default since OOo-2.0 and January 2006. I am surprized that there is such a big difference between myspell and hunspell but... In each case, it looks like you have a good experience with hunspell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305688