Package: libhunspell-dev (1.2.6-1)

spell checker and morphological analyzer (development)

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and an OpenOffice.org UNO module.

Main features:

 - Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode character)
 - morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style)
 - Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative
   languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
 - Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
 - Support language specific algorithms (for example, handling Azeri
   and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
 - Handling conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes,
   forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.

This package contains the headers and the static library.

Tags: Software Development: Libraries, Role: Development Library