Talk:Hunspell

Anglo-chauvinism
I think wikipedia is heavily Anglo-chauvinsistic in notability issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.98.75.217 (talk • contribs) 00:27, December 11, 2007 (UTC)


 * The English Wikipedia is Anglo-chauvinsistic, yes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.28.177.57 (talk) 10:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

ASCII is not 8-bit
‘While MySpell uses 8-bit ASCII character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries.’ I have the following issues with this statement:
 * Actually, ASCII is a 7-bit encoding. It is, however, a very frequent error made by many people that assume that ASCII and various 8-bit encodings (usually for Western European languages, like ISO 8859-1, 5ISO 8859-15, and Windows-1252) are identical.
 * It is true that ASCII is bit-for-bit compatible with most 8-bit encodings currently in usage (ISO 8859 family, Windows ‘ANSI’, DOS (MS ‘OEM’)) as far as the common characters are concerned (0x20–0x7F), but so it is with UTF-8 (and UTF-7, and numerous legacy multibyte encodings used for Asian languages). It is not compatible with IBM’s 8-bit family of EBCDIC encodings.
 * In an encyclopædia, a higher standard of quality and accuracy is expected than in other publications, that can frequently get away with various simplifications and common mistakes.10:33, 7 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.92.181.98 (talk)

vim
It's my understanding that Vim can use converted hunspell lists (and others) but has an internal spellcheck so I removed it from the table.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html (especially the FORMAT WITH .AFF AND .DIC FILES and UNSUPPORTED ITEMS sections)

--24.136.168.109 (talk) 22:29, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

History needed
A brief history of Hunspell and the software author, László Németh, is needed. As it stands, the article is little more than a one-line statement of what the program does. "László Németh" (or Németh László in native form) is apparently a popular Hungarian name, and a Web search returns a bewildering array of results. Wikipedia has a László Németh article, but it is about a long-dead dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist, not a linguist or computer programmer. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 17:37, 13 July 2017 (UTC)