Bug 121228

Summary:	Add support for hunspell
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Hasso Tepper <hasso>
Component:	kspell	Assignee:	Zack Rusin <zack>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kevin.kofler
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Hasso Tepper 2006-02-02 14:57:33 UTC

Version:           tundmatu (using KDE 3.5.1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.14.5-ck7

Hunspell (http://hunspell.sourceforge.net) is the first open source spellchecker with real morphological analyzer, max. 65535 affix classes, twofold affix stripping etc. which gives chance to implement good spellcheckers for complex languages like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish etc.

Hunspell will be also used in Openoffice.org instead of myspell in next version.

Comment 1 Daniel Naber 2006-03-21 23:19:36 UTC

Nothing against Azeri and Basque, but what's even more important for many people: hunspell supports proper checking of compound words in German like the famous "Donaudampfschifffahrt".

You can test it at http://j3e.de/cgi-bin/spellchecker (it's still not perfect, but before -- with ispell/aspell -- there was no support for compound words at all)

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 now includes hunspell.

Comment 2 Jakob Petsovits 2008-05-27 14:23:16 UTC

I read in an interview with Fedora's KDE special interest group that they worked on integrating hunspell into KDE. Is this already in kdelibs? If so, we could close this bug... and if not, there can't be much missing anymore.

CC'ing a prominent Fedora/KDE dev - Kevin, can you tell me more on that matter?

Comment 3 Kevin Krammer 2008-05-27 19:47:35 UTC

Wrong Kevin :)

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2008-05-27 20:03:51 UTC

I submitted patches for this purpose, see:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154561 (legacy KSpell (KDE 3) / K3Spell (KDE 4))
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154560 (KSpell2 (KDE 3), Enchant support backported from KDE 4's Sonnet)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154561 ***

Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2008-05-27 20:05:04 UTC

(FYI, we're using those patches in Fedora 9 and they're working fine.)