* Aspell can easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. * Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. * Include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

• Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology. • Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data. • Morphological analysis, stemming and generation. • Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. • C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license. • Interfaces and ports: AndroidHunspellService (for Android, based on the Chromium fork of Hunspell), Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), XSpell (Mac OS X port, but Hunspell is part of the OS X from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now it is enough to place the Hunspell dictionary files into ~/Library/Spelling or /Library/Spelling for spell checking), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, .NET, Python, Ruby (1, 2, 3), UNO, RichEdit.