How to maintain a list of names for the Hunspell spell checker?
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**Hunspell** should help the user to write names properly.
The names should be defined in the home directory of the user, so that every user can define his or her own list of important names.
If a user starts to create a dictionary of names it would be very feasible to **check for the full names**:
# Name # should be detected as
Walter Brattain # correct
Walter Britain # wrong
Leon Cooper # correct
Leon Copper # wrong
Léon Brillouin # correct
Leon Brillouin # wrong
**How can I generate the required dictionary?**
# I tried so far
cat ~/.hunspell_default/mynames.dic
Walter Brattain
Leon Cooper
Léon Brillouin
cat ~/.hunspell_default/mynames.aff
SET UTF-8
TRY esianrtolcdugmphbyfvkwzESIANRTOLCDUGMPHBYFVKWZ'
But this does not help Hunspell to find the misspelled names.
~/.hunspell_default$ echo "Walter Britain and Leon Copper visit Leon Brillouin." | hunspell -m -p mynames.dic
Walter st:Walter
Walter st:Walt fl:R
Britain st:Britain
and st:and
Leon st:Leon
Copper st:copper
Copper st:cop fl:R
visit st:visit
Leon st:Leon
Brillouin st:Brillouin
Asked by Jonas Stein
(4298 rep)
Jan 11, 2019, 10:15 PM
Last activity: Jan 12, 2019, 12:36 PM
Last activity: Jan 12, 2019, 12:36 PM