Hunspell

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.1.5

Notes:
2007-03-19: Hunspell 1.1.5 release:
  - optimizations: 10-100% speed up, smaller code size and memory footprint
    (conditional experimental code and warning messages)

  - extended Unicode support:
    - non BMP Unicode characters in dictionary words and affixes (except
      affix rules and conditions)
    - support BOM sequence in aff and dic file

  - IGNORE feature for Arabic diacritics and other optional characters

  - New edit distance suggestion methods:
    - capitalisation: nasa -> NASA
    - long swap: permenant -> permanent
    - long move: Ghandi -> Gandhi, greatful -> grateful
    - double two characters: vacacation -> vacation
    - spaces in REP sug.: REP alot a_lot (NOTE: "a lot" must be a dictionary word)

  - patches and bug fixes for Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Emacs, MinGW, Aqua,
    German and Arabic language, etc.

Changes:
2007-03-21 Németh László <nemeth at OOo>:
        * tools/Makefile.am, munch.h, unmunch.h: add missing munch.h and unmunch.h
          Reported by Björn Jacke and Khaled Hosny (sf.net Bug ID 1684144)
        * hunspell/hunspell.cxx, hunspell.hxx: fix --with-ui compliling error (add get_csconv())
          Reported by Khaled Hosny (sf.net Bug ID 1685010)

2007-03-19 Németh László <nemethl@gyorsposta.hu>:
        * csutil.cxx, hunspell/hunspell.cxx: Unicode non BMP area (>65K character range) support
          (except conditional patterns and strip characters of affix rules)
        * tests/utf8_nonbmp*: test data

        * src/hunspell/*: add Mozilla patches from David Einstein
        - run-time generated 8-bit character tables
        - other Mozilla related changes (see Mozilla Bugzilla Bug 319778)

        * csutil.cxx, affixmgr.cxx, hashmgr.cxx: optimized version of IGNORE feature
        - IGNORE works with affixes (except strip characters and affix conditions)
        * tests/ignore*: test data with latin characters
        * tests/ignoreutf*: Unicode test data with Arabic diacritics (Harakat)

        * src/hunspell/suggestmgr.cxx: new edit distance suggestion methods
        - capitalization: nasa -> NASA
        - long swap: permenant -> permanent
        - long mov.: Ghandi -> Gandhi
        - double two characters: vacacation -> vacation
        * tests/sug.*: test data

        * src/hunspell/affixmgr.cxx: space in REP strings (alot -> a lot)
          Note: Underline character signs the space in REP strings: REP alot a_lot, and
          put the expression with space ("a lot") into the dic file (see tests/sug).

        * hashmgr.cxx, affixmgr.cxx: ignore Unicode byte order mark (BOM sequence)
        * tests/utf8_bom*: test data

        * hunspell/*.cxx: OOo Issue 68903 - Make lingucomponent warning-free on wntmsci10
        - fix Hunspell related warning messages on Windows platform (except some assignment
          within conditional expressions). Reported and started by Stephan Bergmann.

        * hunspell/affixmgr.cxx: fix OOo Issue 66683 - hunspell dmake debug=x fails
        - Reported by Stephan Bergmann.

        * src/hunspell/hunspell.[ch]xx: thread safe API for Hunspell executable
          (removing prev*() functions, new spell(word, info, root) function)

        * configure.ac, src/hunspell/*: HUNSPELL_EXPERIMENTAL code
          --with-experimental configure option (conditional compiling of morphological analyser
          and stemmer tools)

        * configure.ac, src/hunspell/*: conditional Hunspell warning messages
          --with-warnings configure option

        * affixmgr.cxx: new, optimized parsing functions

        * affixmgr.cxx: fix homonym handling for German dictionary project,
          reported by Björn Jacke (sf.net Bug ID 1592880).
        * tests/1592880.*: test data by Björn Jacke

        * src/hunspell/affixmgr.cxx: fix CIRCUMFIX suggestion
          Bug reported by Erdal Ronahi.

        * hunspell.cxx: reverse root word output (complex prefixes)
          Bug reported by Munzir Taha.

        * tools/hunspell.cxx: fix Emacs compatibility, patch by marot at sf.net
        - no % command in PIPE mode (SourceForge BugTracker 1595607)
        - fix HUNSPELL_VERSION string

        * suggestmgr.[hc]xx: rename check() functions to checkword() (OOo Issue 68296)
          adopt MySpell patch by Bryan Petty (tierra at ooo) for Hunspell source

        * csutil.cxx, munch.c, unmunch.c: adopt relevant parts of the MinGW patch
          (OOo Issue 42504) by tonal at ooo

        * affigmgr.cxx: remove double candidate_check() call, reported by Bram Moolenaar

        * tests/test.sh: add LC_ALL="C" environment. Locale dependency of make check
          reported by Gentoo project.

        * src/tools/hunspell.cxx: UTF-8 highlighting fix for console UI
          (not solved: breaking long UTF-8 lines)

        * src/tools/unmunch.c: fix bad generation if strip is shorter than condition,
          reported by Davide Prina
        * src/tools/unmunch.h: increase 5000 -> 500000

        * src/tools/hunspell.cxx: fix memory error in suggestion (uninitialized parameter),
          Bug also reported by Björn Jacke in SourceForge Bug 1469957

        * csutil.cxx, affixmgr.cxx: fix Caolan McNamara's patch for non OOo environment

2006-11-11 Caolan McNamara <cmc at ooo>: 
        * csutil.cxx, affixmgr.cxx: UTF-8 table patch (OOo Issue 71449)
          Description: memory optimization (OOo doesn't use the large UTF-8 table).

        * Makefile.am: shared library patch (Sourceforge ID 1610756)

        * hunspell.h, hunspell.cxx: C API patch (Sourceforge ID 1616353)

        * hunspell.pc: pkgconfig patch (Sourceforge ID 1639128)

2006-10-17 Ryan Jones <at Mozilla Bugzilla>:
        * affixmgr.cxx: missing fclose(affixlst) calls
          Reported by <gavins at ooo> in OOo Issue 70408

2007-07-11 Taha Zerrouki <taha at gawab>: 
        * affixmgr.cxx, hunspell.cxx, hashmgr.cxx, csutil.cxx: IGNORE feature to remove
          optional Arabic and other characters from input and dictionary words.
        * src/hunspell/langnum.hxx: add Arabic language number, lang_ar=96
        * tests/ignore.*: test data

2006-05-28 Miha Vrhovnik <mvrhov at users.sourceforge>:
        * src/win_api/*: C API for Windows DLLs
        - also Delphi text editor example (see on Hunspell Sourceforge page)

2006-05-18 Kevin F. Quinn <kevquinn at gentoo>:
        * utf_info.cxx: struct -> static struct
          Shared library patch also developed by Gentoo developers (Hanno Meyer-Thurow,
          Diego Pettenò, Kevin F. Quinn)