Pspell
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The purpose of Pspell was to provide a generic interface to the system spelling checking libraries. It was, and sometimes still is, used in computer programming
such as C
, and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
.
Pspell has not been updated since 2001, but is still available on SourceForge
at its project page. It has been replaced by GNU Aspell
. PHP
’s Pspell extension, while retaining its current name, now uses the Aspell library.
Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...
such as C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
, and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...
.
Pspell has not been updated since 2001, but is still available on SourceForge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
at its project page. It has been replaced by GNU Aspell
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 software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public...
. PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
’s Pspell extension, while retaining its current name, now uses the Aspell library.
See also
- GNU AspellGNU AspellGNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public...
- HunspellHunspellHunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language....
- IspellIspellIspell 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...
- MySpellMySpellMySpell was the former spell checker included with OOo Writer of the free OpenOffice.org office suite.Since version 2.0.2 OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell.-Background:...
- VirastyarVirastyarVirastyar is a Persian spell checker, written as an add-in for Microsoft Word. Besides Persian spell checking, Virastyar features persian character standardization, Pinglish transliteration, punctuation correction and calendar conversion. It also can conjugate more than 46,000 simple verb tense...