About:
GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language. Unlike Ispell, Aspell can also easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. Other advantages over Ispell include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement

Author:
Kevin Atkinson <kevina [at] gnu [dot] org> [contact developer]

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8.60/10.00 (7 votes)

Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freeware, OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Office/Business, Text Editors, Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.60.2	06-Jan-2005	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
aspell-en English wordlist	0.51-0	15-Mar-2003	Freeware

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.51-0	Initial freshmeat announcement	15-Mar-2003 07:06

 Comments

[»] Prolems with Russian
by mikeus - Aug 19th 2008 19:06:25

I just read this post http://www.goldsoftware.ru/node/77 where you can see problems in Russian spell checking. It's trying to change "megapixel" on "gay".

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[»] Re: Failure on three different Solaris machines with latest (.28.3)
by Kevin Atkinson - Feb 7th 2000 13:04:41

I'm sorry that should be --disable-shared

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[»] Re: Failure on three different Solaris machines with latest (.28.3)
by Kevin Atkinson - Feb 7th 2000 08:58:01

Try ./configure --disable-static.

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[»] Failure on three different Solaris machines with latest (.28.3)
by Shaman - Nov 22nd 1999 12:01:50

make[2]: Entering directory `/src/aspell-.28.3/data' ../src/aspell --lang=english --data-dir=. create master ./english < english.wl Abort - core dumped

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