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Adrian Aley
Adrian Aley
Japán
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japán - angol
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Sep 5, 2012

Hi everyone,

I was talking with a colleague a little while back, and we got into discussing spellchecking for different languages. Based on our discussion, my understanding is that some languages don't have a "spellcheck" because there is no "spelling," but rather something akin to "grammar check." (As is the case in Chinese, I believe.)

While I would guess Word spellcheck would be pretty common, I was wondering how everyone conducts spellcheck in their own languages, i... See more
Hi everyone,

I was talking with a colleague a little while back, and we got into discussing spellchecking for different languages. Based on our discussion, my understanding is that some languages don't have a "spellcheck" because there is no "spelling," but rather something akin to "grammar check." (As is the case in Chinese, I believe.)

While I would guess Word spellcheck would be pretty common, I was wondering how everyone conducts spellcheck in their own languages, if there's anything unique to the language that would make it difficult to conduct a standard check, and if there are any tools or programs you use for spellcheck in your language.

Is Word or TagEditor a good enough quality, or do you use (or need) something better?

I know there's software created specifically for spellchecking in a certain languages, so it's just something I was wondering and looking to learn a bit about.

I'd appreciate any thoughts!


Thanks.


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esperantisto
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Tag (2006 óta)
angol - orosz
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Hunspell Sep 5, 2012

Adrian Aley wrote:

Is Word or TagEditor a good enough quality, or do you use (or need) something better?


For Russian, Word’s spellcheck is quite poor, for Belarusian and Esperanto it does not exist. I prefer Hunspell as implemented in Apache OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, OmegaT and some other programs.
 
Al Arafat
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Kanada
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angol - bengáli
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Bengali spell checker Sep 5, 2012

In Bengali, "Avro 5.0" (freeware) introduced new spell checker. That's reasonably good.
 
Adrian Aley
Adrian Aley
Japán
Local time: 10:30
japán - angol
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TÉMAINDÍTÓ
Spell check Sep 7, 2012

Thanks for your replies.

I would have though Microsoft would have something of decent quality for Russian, but I guess not! I would be interested to know what the status of spell check is for languages like Arabic.

Thanks also for the info on Bengali, I guess many languages really do need their own checking tools/software.
 
esperantisto
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Not Microsoft actually Sep 7, 2012

Adrian Aley wrote:

I would have though Microsoft would have something of decent quality for Russian


They have nothing at all. They only implemented in Microsoft Office a cut-down version of Orfo (well-known spell check program developed in Russia) of around 1997 production year. Since then, Orfo did develop, but the Big Greedy Company did not care to update (I’ve heard, Microsoft Office 2010 introduced some changes, but not sure if it’s something of improvement or merely cosmetic).
 
Adrian Aley
Adrian Aley
Japán
Local time: 10:30
japán - angol
+ ...
TÉMAINDÍTÓ
I've heard of Orfo Sep 18, 2012

Sorry for my delayed reply.

I've actually heard of Orfo, and did not realize that Microsoft was using a cut down version.
I guess people should be hesitant in trusting Microsoft's spellchecker in languages other than English.
 


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