Re: Extracting full wordlist from AbiWord's dictionaries

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 00:36:45 CEST

There are word lists for Aspell and Myspell/Hunspell. I'd advise
looking into that.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
> João Sousa wrote:
>>
>> Hi there. Sorry if you got this message in duplicate (I first sent
>> right after I sent the mail to subscribe to the mailing list but
>> before activating...).
>>
>> Is there any easy/fast way to extract the entire list of words in an
>> AbiWord dictionary into a single .txt file in Windows?
>> Is it even possible? Or is the wordlist already available as a source
>> files (instead of the .hash file... editable by Notepad...).
>>
>> I kind of need this since I'm currently using an app that doesn't have
>> dictionaies in my language...
>> A simple app that did this like by drag-n-drop (preferably one word
>> per line and in lowercase... with unicode support) would be great...
>>
>> If not, is there a notepad like application under Win32 (free and with
>> unicode support) that opens/edits .hash files?
>>
>> Would really like to know.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> I'm not sure this is possible - you might get more success searching for
> a freely-licensable word list. There is the source for those wordlists
> somewhere, they are just GPL'ed ispell hashes. You might also look
> into using aspell as an "external" spell checker.
>
> Hopefully this info gives you enough to Google for to find what will
> work for you. Good luck!
>
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