Thunderbird gets a new spell checker, Firefox may follow
Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x.
Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis and support for complex compounds and agglutinative languages like Azeri, Basque, Estonian and Hungarian.
MySpell dictionaries are fully compatible with Hunspell which definitely helps for a very easy transition.
Interestingly, while looking around about Hunspell I found that project Runasimipi is creating a Hunspell Runasimi dictionary to be used with localized versions of Abiword, OpenOffice.org and Firefox at least. This looks as an amazing coincidence for me, as some days ago I was thinking about starting a Runasimi localized Firefox.
Runasimi, better known as Quechua (ketch-wa), is and official language in Peru and the second most spoken after Spanish with about 3 million speakers. An estimated total of 7 million speakers are counted in several other South American countries including Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile and Brazil.
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David Naylor
Morphological analysis… does that mean that it will be … umm … smarter?
Andrew Shumate
Good… I always thought Firefox’s Spell Check was horrible. (For instance: I just misspelled SPELL as speel and spell was not a suggestion.
Dafin Aziz
Can they please add a transparent(variable opacity?) spell check window. It would help a lot, eg when seeing sentences in context etc.
Tim R
Thunderbird spell check seems to run but never finds any errors. Have I installed it incorrectly? How can I tun spell checking on?
Robert Boland
My spell checker finds nothing. I have the spell checker turned on (Tools/options/composition) but it fails to find even the simplest misspelled word.
Jim Dodgen
Any way to get the spell checker to weight the first character higher when giving suggestions?
example:
“asitance” comes back with “hesitance” and other derivatives when I missspell “assistance”
“dirivitives” offers up “primitiveness” when MS Outlook finds “derivatives” as the first hit.
Richard Davis
The spelling check in Firefox is far from perfect.
Firstly they offer no help to the bad typist. Since we are all typists now – and untrained in the main – we have more typing errors than spelling errors – and so-called spell checkers should take account of this.
I often mistype “Politics” as “POlitics” but the spell-checker is no help here. Firefox would be better with a better spelling and typing checker – and a way for people to add their own suggestions as to the word they meant to type
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chris Patton
I have just downloaded thunderbird and it works perfectly with one exception. The spellchecker simply is inactive. I tryed to download load it from monzilla without sucess. What can I do/ You can probbably tell from ths that my speling is atrocious. All advice welcome Chris.
nick mcaman
My spell checker finds nothing as well. Am I doing something wrong?
John Spencer
The thunderbird spell checker is dead in the water.
you have to recheck line after line after line cos the thunderbird
spell checker just looks at your words and goes huh what.
Jeez there it is, TOOLs composition, you tick the box and zip.
Dead as a dodo doo doo nothing. God make another one
that works or something, it’s a piece of ap.
The only thing it’s good at is making you look like a tit.
icoste
Im my honest opinion, firefox is great (the stable versions), and a lot better than IE.
But when it comes to mail clients outlook is far better than thunderbird. I think that Mozilla need to look again at what they are doing as ive thought about using thunderbird several times but always stuck with outlook.
Hopefully one day thunderbird will improve because im sure there is a lot of room for improvement!
Tyrone
Unfortunately, Hunspell is notoriously poor at making correct spelling suggestions even when given rather trivial misspellings. It is so poor, that I have found that quite often I have to cut & paste the email into Word for spell check.
Larry
Thunderbird’s spell check is so horrible.An otherwise great product dragged down by that. I type fast and need a spell checker that works. And this idiot program can’t replace a capitalized word at the beginning of sentence with a capitalized word.
Actually went back to Outlook Express because of it.
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