{"id":473,"date":"2010-09-06T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2010\/09\/if-texthunspell-never-worked-for-you-now-its-time-to-try-it-again\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:52:26","slug":"if-texthunspell-never-worked-for-you-now-its-time-to-try-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2010\/09\/if-texthunspell-never-worked-for-you-now-its-time-to-try-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"If Text::Hunspell never worked for you, now it’s time to try it again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don't know, Hunspell<\/a> is the spell checker engine of OpenOffice.org<\/a>, and it's also included in the Opera and Mozilla browsers<\/b>.<\/p>\n

We were trying to use it from Perl, using the old Text::Hunspell<\/a> module, version 1.3<\/b>, but we had problems with it. Big problems. Like segfaults and tests that wouldn't run.<\/p>\n

A bright hacker from Italy :) was then called in to fix the problem, with the promise of a fantastic prize he hasn't seen yet…<\/b> [ping?]<\/a> :-)<\/p>\n

During the process, I found out I know absolutely nothing about dictionary files and stuff, and my fixes<\/a> were – I would say – definitely horrible.<\/p>\n

But! There's a bright side, of course, and that is that the module works just fine now, at least on Debian\/Ubuntu systems. Before using Text::Hunspell, you want to install the following packages:<\/p>\n