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HunSpell
Developer(s)	László Németh
Stable release	1.2.8 / 2008-11-1; 14 months ago
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Spell checker
License	GNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License
Website	http://hunspell.sourceforge.net

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.

Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses an 8-bit character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries.

Hunspell is the spell checker of:

OpenOffice.org, a cross-platform office suite (starting with version 2.0.2 March 8, 2006)
Mozilla products Thunderbird / Firefox (starting with version 3) and SeaMonkey (starting with version 2)
WinShell, an integrated development environment (IDE) for TeX / LaTeX on Windows
Yudit, a Unicode text editor for the X Window System
Opera 10, a multiplatform web browser and internet suite.
Google Chrome, an open source web browser developed by Google ^[1].
The Bat! email client by RITLABS S.R.L. since version 4.0
Apple's MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Moreover, Hunspell is supported by Enchant and Emacs.

Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license. Hunspell has ports or wrappers for the major platforms and programming languages as Java^[2], Perl^[3], Python^[4], and .NET^[5]