Daniel Dekany wrote: > Monday, April 20, 2009, 8:11:49 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote: > >> Monday, April 20, 2009, 10:56:08 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: >> >>> Daniel Dekany wrote: > [snip] >>> 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. >> I didn't pointed you to Huspell. Open Office has it's own unified >> spell checker API > [snip] > > My apologies.... I was wrong here. OpenOffice indeed uses Hunspell for > *everything*, it seems. So then just forget whatever I said about > OO/UNO too, as one should just directly use Hunspell. JNA/JNI wrappers > are available for it.
No problem. Once again, thank you for pointing us to Hunspell. We have evaluated other Open Source spell checker engines (MySpell, Aspell, ISpell, etc) and found them inferior to XMLmind Spell Checker in terms for quality of suggestions. The situation has almost certainly changed with Hunspell which has ``extended support for language peculiarities''. Such support is absolutely required for a number of 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. > > Not even as an optional plug-in? > Yes, this would be a good compromise (e.g. the plug-in would be available only on Windows). We will do that when we'll feel that such plug-in could significantly increase our sales. For now, this is not the case, but the situation could change in the future.
