lua-nuspell is a set of Lua 5.x bindings for Nuspell spellchecking C++ library.
Nuspell is a fast and safe spelling checker software program. It is designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding.Nuspell is written in modern C++ and it supports Hunspell dictionaries.
Main features of Nuspell spelling checker:
- Provides software library and command-line tool.
- Suggests high-quality spelling corrections.
- Backward compatibility with Hunspell dictionary file format.
- Up to 3.5 times faster than Hunspell.
- Full Unicode support backed by ICU.
- Twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.).
- Supports complex compounds (for example, Hungarian, German and Dutch).
- Supports advanced features, for example: special casing rules (Turkish dotted i or German sharp s), conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.
- Free and open source software. Licensed under GNU LGPL v3 or later.
Tested only on Linux. Feedback wanted!
- nuspell
from LuaRocks
luarocks install lua-nuspell
Clone and build.
luarocks make --local
Clone and compile for example for Lua 5.1.
g++ -fPIC -shared -lnuspell -std=c++17 -I/usr/include/lua5.1/ -o nuspell.so src/nuspell.cxx
Documentation is available with
luarocks doc lua-nuspell
Otherwise, it can be generated with LDoc by running
ldoc .
And the result can be viewed by opening doc/index.html in a web browser.
local nuspell = require('nuspell')
local unpack = table.unpack or unpack
local word = 'Hello'
local lang = 'en_US'
local dirs = nuspell.get_default_dir_paths()
local aff = nuspell.search_dirs_for_one_dict(dirs, lang)
local dict = nuspell.Dictionary.load_aff_dic(aff)
print(dict:spell(word))
print(unpack(dict:suggest(word)))lua-nuspell is licensed under the LGPL version 3 or later, see LICENSE for more
information.