The purpose of Pspell (Portable Spell Checker Interface Library) was to provide a generic interface to the system
spelling checking libraries. It was, and sometimes still is, used in
computer programming
Computer programming is the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program. Programming involves tasks such as ana ...
such as
C, and is licensed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ...
.
Pspell has not been updated since 2001, but is still available on
SourceForge
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a
its project page It has been replaced by
GNU Aspell
GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main pro ...
.
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group ...
’s Pspell extension, while retaining its current name, now uses the Aspell library.
See also
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GNU Aspell
GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main pro ...
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Hunspell
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.
Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backwar ...
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Ispell
Ispell is a spelling checker for Unix that supports most Western languages. It offers several interfaces, including a programmatic interface for use by editors such as Emacs. Unlike GNU Aspell, ispell will only suggest corrections that are based ...
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MySpell
MySpell is a spell checker that was formerly included with OOo Writer of the free OpenOffice.org office suite.
Since version 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell.
Background
MySpell was started by Kevin Hendricks in an att ...
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Virastyar
Virastyar ( fa, ویراستیار, meaning "editing assistant") is a Persian add-in for Microsoft Word that performs Persian spell checking, character standardization, Pinglish transliteration, punctuation correction and calendar conversion. It ...
External links
SourceForge.net Project InfoGNU Aspell SourceForge.net Project Info
Free spelling checking programs
Language software for Linux
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