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[Aspell-user] GNU Aspell 0.60 Released
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Kevin Atkinson |
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[Aspell-user] GNU Aspell 0.60 Released |
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Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:22:39 -0400 (EDT) |
[This document is also available at http://aspell.net/aspell-0.60.html]
GNU Aspell 0.60 is now available at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.tar.gz
GNU Aspell is a Free 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 much better 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.
Additional information on GNU Aspell can be found at
http://aspell.net.
The two major changes in this release, as compared to 0.50.5, are
support for affix compression and better Unicode support.
Complete list of changes from 0.50.5:
* Added support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores the
root word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word
can take, and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase comes from
MySpell found in OpenOffice. It uses the same affix file that
OpenOffice (and Mozilla) use. Affix compression will even work
with soundslike lookup to a limited extent.
* Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in
UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses.
This includes support for Unicode normalization. Asp can now
support any language with no more than 210 distinct characters,
including different capitalizations and accents, _even if_ there
is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the language.
* Added support for loadable filters and customizable filter modes
thanks to Christoph Hintermüller.
* Enhanced SGML filter to also support skipping sgml tags such as
"script" blocks thanks to Tom Snyder.
* Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff
* Reworked the compiled dictionary format. Compiled dictionaries
now take up less space (less than 80% for the English language) and
creating them is significantly faster (over 4 times for the
English language).
* Reworked suggestion code. It is significantly faster when dealing
with short words (up to 10 times). Also added support for MySpell
Replacement Tables and n-gram lookup. In addition, added basic
support for compound words.
* Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work
of Chris Martin.
* Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for
most of the code.
* All data, by default, is now included in `LIBDIR/aspell-0.60'.
Also added a built time option to increment the major version
number of the shared library. This should allow both Aspell
version 0.50 and 0.60 to coexist. The major version number is
_not_ incremented by default as Aspell 0.60 is binary compatible
with Aspell 0.50.
* The code to handle dictionaries has been rewritten. Because of
this support for the dictionary option `strip-accents' has been
removed. In addition the `ignore-accents' option is currently
unimplemented.
* Lots of other minor changes due to massive overhaul of the source
code.
With support for affix compression finally being implement Aspell
should be able to replace Ispell for most tasks. The only major
feature that Ispell has which Aspell does not is a nroff filter, which
can easilly be corrected if someone who knows nroff well is willing to
work with me to add it.
With the release of GNU Aspell 0.60 it is my sincere hope that GNU
Aspell can replace Ispell as the de facto spell checker for all free
operating systems and possible all Unix like systems. All known
Ispell dictionaries have been converted to Aspell format, except for
Albanian (sq) as I was unable to find the source word list.
GNU Aspell can support any of the following languages, many of which
already have dictionaries available:
Code Language Name Dictionary Gettext
Available Translation
aa Afar - -
af Afrikaans 0.50 -
ak Akan - -
am Amharic Planned -
ar Arabic Planned -
as Assamese - -
ast Asturian / Bable Maybe -
av Avar - -
ay Aymara - -
az Azerbaijani 0.60 -
ba Bashkir - -
ban Balinese Maybe -
be Belarusian 0.50 Incomplete
bem Bemba Maybe -
bg Bulgarian 0.50 -
bh Bihari - -
bi Bislama Maybe -
bm Bambara - -
bn Bengali 0.60 -
bo Tibetan - -
br Breton 0.50 -
bs Bosnian Maybe -
ca Catalan / Valencian 0.50 -
ce Chechen - -
ceb Cebuano Maybe -
ch Chamorro Maybe -
co Corsican Maybe -
cs Czech 0.50 Yes
cv Chuvash - -
cy Welsh 0.50 -
da Danish 0.50 Incomplete
de German 0.50 Yes
ee Ewe - -
el Greek 0.50 -
en English 0.50 Yes
eo Esperanto 0.50 -
es Spanish 0.50 Incomplete
et Estonian 0.60 -
eu Basque Maybe -
fa Persian Maybe -
ff Fulah - -
fi Finnish 0.60 -
fj Fijian Maybe -
fo Faroese 0.50 -
fr French 0.50 Yes
fur Friulian Maybe -
fy Frisian Maybe -
ga Irish 0.50 Yes
gd Scottish Gaelic 0.50 -
gl Gallegan 0.50 -
gn Guarani Maybe -
gu Gujarati Maybe -
gv Manx Gaelic 0.50 -
ha Hausa Maybe -
haw Hawaiian Maybe -
he Hebrew 0.60 -
hi Hindi Maybe -
hil Hiligaynon Maybe -
ho Hiri Motu - -
hr Croatian 0.50 -
hsb Upper Sorbian 0.60 -
ht Haitian Creole Maybe -
hu Hungarian 0.60 -
hy Armenian - -
hz Herero - -
ia Interlingua (IALA) 0.50 -
iba Iban Maybe -
id Indonesian 0.50 -
ig Igbo Maybe -
ii Sichuan Yi - -
ilo Iloko Maybe -
io Ido - -
is Icelandic 0.50 -
it Italian 0.50 -
jv Javanese - -
ka Georgian - -
kac Kachin Maybe -
kg Kongo Maybe -
ki Kikuyu / Gikuyu - -
kj Kwanyama - -
kk Kazakh - -
kl Kalaallisut / Maybe -
Greenlandic
kn Kannada - -
kok Konkani Maybe -
kr Kanuri - -
ks Kashmiri - -
ku Kurdish Maybe -
kv Komi - -
kw Cornish Maybe -
ky Kirghiz - -
la Latin 0.60 -
lb Luxembourgish Maybe -
lg Ganda Maybe -
li Limburgian Maybe -
ln Lingala Maybe -
lt Lithuanian 0.60 -
lu Luba-Katanga - -
luo Luo (Kenya and Maybe -
Tanzania)
lv Latvian 0.60 -
mg Malagasy Maybe -
mh Marshallese Maybe -
mi Maori 0.50 -
min Minangkabau Maybe -
mk Macedonian 0.50 -
ml Malayalam Maybe -
mn Mongolian 0.60 Yes
mo Moldavian - -
mr Marathi Maybe -
ms Malay 0.50 -
mt Maltese 0.50 -
my Burmese - -
nb Norwegian Bokmal 0.50 -
nd North Ndebele Maybe -
nds Low Saxon Maybe -
ne Nepali Maybe -
ng Ndonga Maybe -
nl Dutch 0.50 Yes
nn Norwegian Nynorsk 0.50 -
nr South Ndebele - -
nso Northern Sotho Maybe -
nv Navajo - -
ny Nyanja 0.50 -
oc Occitan / Provencal Maybe -
om Oromo - -
or Oriya - -
os Ossetic - -
pa Punjabi - -
pam Pampanga Maybe -
pap Papiamento Maybe -
pl Polish 0.50 -
ps Pushto - -
pt Portuguese 0.50 Incomplete
qu Quechua 0.60 -
rn Rundi Maybe -
ro Romanian 0.50 Incomplete
ru Russian 0.50 Yes
rw Kinyarwanda 0.50 -
sc Sardinian 0.50 -
sd Sindhi - -
se Northern Sami Maybe -
sg Sango - -
si Sinhalese - -
sk Slovak 0.50 -
sl Slovenian 0.50 -
sm Samoan Maybe -
sn Shona Maybe -
so Somali Maybe -
sq Albanian Maybe -
sr Serbian Maybe Incomplete
ss Swati Maybe -
st Southern Sotho Maybe -
su Sundanese Maybe -
sv Swedish 0.50 -
sw Swahili 0.50 -
ta Tamil 0.60 -
te Telugu Maybe -
tet Tetum 0.50 -
tg Tajik Maybe Incomplete
ti Tigrinya Maybe -
tk Turkmen Planned -
tl Tagalog 0.50 -
tn Tswana 0.50 -
to Tonga Maybe -
tpi Tok Pisin Maybe -
tr Turkish 0.50 -
ts Tsonga Maybe -
tt Tatar - -
tw Twi - -
ty Tahitian Maybe -
ug Uighur - -
uk Ukrainian 0.50 Yes
ur Urdu Maybe -
uz Uzbek 0.60 -
ve Venda Maybe -
vi Vietnamese 0.60 -
wa Walloon 0.50 Incomplete
wo Wolof - -
xh Xhosa Maybe -
yi Yiddish 0.60 -
yo Yoruba - -
za Zhuang - -
zu Zulu 0.50 -
Dictionaries marked as "0.50" are available for Aspell 0.50. Ones
marked as "0.60" are available for Aspell 0.60 only. Ones marked as
"Planned" should eventually be available. Ones marked as "Maybe"
might be available in the future. See
http://aspell.net/man-html/Planned-Dictionaries.html
for more info.
Dictionaries can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/
Finally, if you wish to support the continuing development of Aspell
please consider donating. Your donation will encouraging me, Kevin
Atkinson, to continue to spend my time developing Aspell. Without your
support Aspell may go into another period of non-development as was
the case for most of 2003.
If you wish to contribute a modest amount of money you can do so now
by using the SourceForge donation system:
http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=245.
If you wish to talk to me (as in over the phone) before contributing
money, or wish to only contribute money towards development of a certain
area of Aspell, this can be arranged.
--
http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
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