On Debian 12, I have installed additional language hunspell dictionaries: But when I start Thunderbird 102, it does not see them. When I click on Languages, it only offers the default English (United States) Hunspell dictionary works when I install the dictionary locally as Addon. But then, I would have to install it individually for all my profiles. Howe can I install hunspell dictionary as Debian package and use it in Thunderbird ?

When I grep for phan in my hunspell-dic file /usr/share/hunspell/de_DE_frami.dic, I get list of words including

/Sm
cellophan/Sozm
cellophan/hke
cellophan/ozm
glaukophan/EPSozm

Where do I find documentation, what the suffixes mean? I looked for a manpage for hunspell but only found a non helpful one to update-dictcommon-hunspell. man dict? didn't help either.

I want to make hunspell work with emacs24 and a german dictionary on a ubuntu 13.04-box. To do so I installed hunspell and hunspell-de and added the following to my .emacs file: (setq ispell-program-name "hunspell") (setq ispell-dictionary "deutsch8") When I open a file in emacs and start flyspell-buffer I get Starting new Ispell process [[hunspell::deutsch8]] but it blocks the emacs buffer (mouse becomes a rotating disk indicating to wait) and works for endless without showing any results. So there must be something wrong with my config. Without the second line it works, but only for english texts. So what's the best way to setup hunspell for emacs24 with a german dictionary on ubuntu 13.04? Are there any possible pitfalls?

I'm running the latest Claws-Mail (v3.17.6) on Arch Linux and downloaded the latest hunspell-en_CA package (v2019.10.06). When I go to 'Configuration > Preferences > Spell Checking' the 'Default Dictionary' drop down has nothing in it. I found the hunspell dictionary files are located in '/usr/share/hunspell/'. Is Claws-Mail looking in a different directory? Can I maybe link to these files? Does anyone know how to get this working in Claw-Mail? EDIT: Here's the error message that I get when I compose or reply/forward to an email. `Spell checker could not be started. Couldn't initialize None dictionary: (null) Couldn't initialize None speller.` Thanks in advance!

I am finding myself more and more using French as well as English. I use hunspell (mostly on Slack and Signal) which picks languages from locale, Is there a way to have my locale support both at the same time so that hunspell can correct both English and French side-by-side? My locale currently read: ; locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 It [appears that signal-desktop does not support multiple languages yet…](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1659) thus a hunspell solution would be welcome.

**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

I want to maintain one good dictionary system wide. Unfortunately there are many applications which use their own Hunspell dictionary. Finally it depends on the application and its outdated dictionaries, if typos in a text were found or not. How can I let my **Firefox** use the **system wide Hunspell dictionaries** and the personal dictionary?

On my Debian 9 with Firefox 61 every word is marked as misspelled, except numbers (right now, currently as I'm typing). Things I've tried: 1. Remove en-US dictionary and return it (Had to hard delete the files, as a simple removal of the extension did not remove files or menu option). 2. Add a second dictionary - it added them in the language menu and extensions tab but I don't see the files at /usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/. I tried this both through the addons and preferences. 3. Remove firefox (sudo apt-get remove firefox firefox-esr chromium to make sure no alternative is installed) and install again. 4. Clear data (all of it). 5. Delete ~/.mozilla/firefox/*. None of the above works. I noticed removing/installing dictionaries from the extension page in firefox does not affect the actual dictionary folder, even though the extension appears and the select language menu updates. How do I get spell check to work? Pardon any spelling mistakes.

I understand what hunspell is for, but I was browsing the source code and the man, and I'm not sure: Does hunzip compress text files or just dictionaries ?

Is there some way to list all available dictionaries in hunspell? Something like aspell dump dicts. printf | hunspell -D prints too much junk, and I want to query hunspell itself, not do something like find /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ -name '*.dic' | cut -d '/' -f 6 | cut -d '.' -f 1 | sort .

From [hunspell man page](http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/hunspell/) : ... When in the -a mode, hunspell will also accept lines of single words prefixed with any of '*', '&', '@', '+', '-', '~', '#', '!', '%', '`', or '^'. A line starting with '*' tells hunspell to insert the word into the user's dictionary (similar to the I command). ... I tried something like: echo "* my_word" | hunspell -a but the word is not in my dictionary as parsing sample file again shows it as misspelled word How does this work, how can I add custom word? Or with Aspell, or any "common" program that writes to compatible dictionaries read by Hunspell/Aspell?

How to add words to a specific Hunspell dictionary? I am trying to add words to the dictionary, but it doesn't work. Not from terminal nor from application Typora that uses the dictionary. root@lokal:/home/s/Dropbox/blog# ls -Alrt /usr/share/typora/resources/app/node_modules/spellchecker/vendor/hunspell_dictionaries total 2252 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2406 Sep 12 04:28 README.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 11818 Sep 12 04:28 en_US.aff -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 758364 Sep 19 21:15 en_US.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Sep 21 11:36 .dic_delta root@lokal:/home/s/Dropbox/blog# Method found in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79915/204439 root@lokal:/home/s/Dropbox/blog# echo -e "*Nginx\n#" | hunspell -a bash: /usr/bin/hunspell: No such file or directory root@lokal:/home/s/Dropbox/blog# doesn't work. I installed Hunspell, but then the dictionary in the path of Typora, shown above, was not loaded. How to add words to the dictionary in terminal? Even better how to add words in Typora Markdown Editor? The normal way using Typora menu works only for one session.