| Original author(s) | KDE |
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| Developer(s) | KDE |
| Stable release | 6.9.0 
/ 13 December 2024; 20 days ago (13 December 2024) |
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| Type | Spell checker |
| Website | api |
Sonnet is a multilingual spell checker program in KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Software Compilation 4. Sonnet replaced kspell2 that was created for KDE3. The two main goals for Sonnet's development were a simpler API, wider language support and performance. Notable improvements in Sonnet over kspell2 are:
- In automatic language detection, a language can be identified with as little as 20 characters of text. Even multiple languages in the same document can be detected and spell checked correctly
- Better performance
- Improvements in spell checking languages like Thai and Japanese
- A simpler design - kspell2 consisted of 7 components and a complicated API. Sonnet is a single component and aims to provide a simpler API
- The user can select a primary and backup dictionary, an example given was a doctor who frequently uses terms from a medical dictionary. Words that would not appear in a regular dictionary would be corrected by the backup dictionary that contains medical terms.
See also
References
- "KDE Ships Frameworks 6.9.0". 13 December 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
External links
- Article on Sonnet
- Developers blog Archived 2011-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
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