Sonnet (software)

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

  • 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
  • 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.
Sonnet
Original author(s)KDE
Developer(s)KDE
Stable release5.71.0 (June 13, 2020 (2020-06-13)) [±][1]
Preview release5.0 beta 3 (June 5, 2014 (2014-06-05)) [±][2]
Repository
TypeSpell checker
Websiteapi.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/sonnet/html/

See also

References

  1. "Release of KDE Frameworks 5.71.0". KDE. June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  2. "KDE Ships Third Beta of Frameworks 5". KDE. 2014-06-05.
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