Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Spell checker on Windows

Micha, Yitzchak, and everybody, hi.

As a co-author of Hspell, the Hebrew spell-checker that OpenOffice uses, I am
very much interested in your grievances.
Would you be more detailed? For example, would you send me a list of words that
you expect the spell-checker to reject, but Hspell accepts as legal? It might be
that Hspell is "over-complete", or includes too many rare words.

> I agree with Micha. Maybe there are some people who have
> use for a spell checker that "goes by the Academia", but I
> find it useless. I need a spell checker that goes by accepted
> common usage.

Yitzchak, would you be more detailed? Which words you would like to see in a
different spelling? Could you define, maybe using example, the "accepted common
usage"?

Anyhow, the problem is no longer that of copyright. Hspell and its word list
(which includes practically all of modern Hebrew) are not only very much usable,
they are freely available for anyone to change. The problem is that of defining
a good spelling standard, and changing Hspell according to it. As you said, it
can be done.

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