Daniel Dekany wrote: > XXE don't have spell checker for the most languages, for > understandable reason anyway. Many of them (like mine, Hungarian) > require complex language-specific spell checker algorithms, so there > is no chance anyone will contribute them as a dictionary plugin. But, > couldn't XXE reuse the spell checkers of Open Office? AFAIK it's LGPL, > so you can link to it in a commercial closed-source product. Yeah, you > had to suffer with native code, etc, but having a spell checker (an > on-the-fly one) is IMHO quite a critical feature for something that's > basically a word processor. And after that investment your could > suddenly support tons of extra languages (which together is surely a > big market) virtually for free, not to mention that even for English > it would provide higher quality and possibly more features. Anyway... > I just wonder if you have considered this, whether the investment > would come back. (I would think that for many users not having a spell > checker in a word processor is a major issue. Surely it's that for > me... for that reason I would only use XXE for English text.) >
Thank you for pointing us to Hunspell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell), a Open Source spell-checker engine certainly much superior to our own and which comes with dictionaries for several dozen languages. However, for now, we prefer to keep XXE a 100% Java[tm] program and as Hunspell is written in C++, we cannot consider integrating it in our product.
