MySpell is the spell checker that was formerly included with OOo Writer of the free OpenOffice.org office suite. Since version 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell. == Background == MySpell was started by Kevin Hendricks to integrate various open-source spelling checkers into the OpenOffice.org build. With a little prodding from Kevin Atkinson, the author of Pspell and Aspell, a new spelling checker (MySpell) was written in C++ that supported affix compression, based on Ispell. == Locale (language) files == Every locale (language for a specific territory) can have files for...

Hunspell 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. Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries. == Uses == Hunspell is the spell checker of: Hunspell is also used by the following which need to be included in the list above: Apache Solr 3.5 and later Evernote, note taking software. LyX, a document processor...