Virastyar ( fa, ویراستیار, meaning "editing assistant") is a
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
add-in
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A theme or skin is a preset ...
for
Microsoft Word
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that performs Persian
spell checking In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text. Spell-checking features are often embedded in software or services, such as a word processor, email client, electronic di ...
, character standardization,
Pinglish transliteration
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, punctuation correction and calendar conversion. It can conjugate approximately 46,000 simple verb tense and use inflection and morphological rules to recognize possible extensions of a word. It covers approximately 2,800 non-verbal inflections for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, numerals, classifiers, and pronouns.
Virastyar is mostly coded in
Microsoft Visual C# using
.NET Framework
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and is a
free software
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, released under the
GNU General Public License
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.
[Virastyar at sourceforge.net](_blank)
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See also
*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 ...
*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 ...
*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 base ...
* Enchant
References
External links
*
* {{SourceForge, virastyar, Virastyar
Free spelling checking programs
Spell checkers