The HTMLArea Spell Checker subsystem consists of the following - files:
- -- When an end-user clicks the "spell-check" button in the HTMLArea - editor, a new window is opened with the URL of "spell-check-ui.html". - This window initializes itself with the text found in the editor (uses - window.opener.SpellChecker.editor global variable) and it - submits the text to the server-side script "spell-check-logic.cgi". - The target of the FORM is an inline frame which is used both to - display the text and correcting. -
- -- Further, spell-check-logic.cgi calls Aspell for each portion of plain - text found in the given HTML. It rebuilds an HTML file that contains - clear marks of which words are incorrect, along with suggestions for - each of them. This file is then loaded in the inline frame. Upon - loading, a JavaScript function from "spell-check-ui.js" is called. - This function will retrieve all mispelled words from the HTML of the - iframe and will setup the user interface so that it allows correction. -
- -- Unicode safety — the program is - Unicode safe. HTML entities are expanded into their corresponding - Unicode characters. These characters will be matched as part of the - word passed to Aspell. All texts passed to Aspell are in Unicode - (when appropriate). However, Aspell seems to not support Unicode - yet (thread concerning Aspell and Unicode). - This mean that words containing Unicode - characters that are not in 0..255 are likely to be reported as "mispelled" by Aspell. -
- -- I digged the Net for a couple of hours today and I can't seem to find - any open-source spell checker that has Unicode support. For this - reason we keep using Aspell, because it also seems to have the - best suggestions engine. Unicode support will eventually be - implemented in Aspell. Email - Kevin Atkinson (Aspell author and maintainer) about this ;-) -
- -- The Perl Unicode manual (man perluniintro) states: -
- -- - Starting from Perl 5.6.0, Perl has had the capacity to handle Unicode - natively. Perl 5.8.0, however, is the first recommended release for - serious Unicode work. The maintenance release 5.6.1 fixed many of the - problems of the initial Unicode implementation, but for example regular - expressions still do not work with Unicode in 5.6.1. - -- -
In other words, do not assume that this script is - Unicode-safe on Perl interpreters older than 5.8.0.
- -The following Perl modules are required:
- -Of these, only Text::Aspell might need to be installed manually. The - others are likely to be available by default in most Perl distributions.
- -The HTMLArea Spell Checker subsystem consists of the following + files:
+ ++ When an end-user clicks the "spell-check" button in the HTMLArea + editor, a new window is opened with the URL of "spell-check-ui.html". + This window initializes itself with the text found in the editor (uses + window.opener.SpellChecker.editor global variable) and it + submits the text to the server-side script "spell-check-logic.cgi". + The target of the FORM is an inline frame which is used both to + display the text and correcting. +
+ ++ Further, spell-check-logic.cgi calls Aspell for each portion of plain + text found in the given HTML. It rebuilds an HTML file that contains + clear marks of which words are incorrect, along with suggestions for + each of them. This file is then loaded in the inline frame. Upon + loading, a JavaScript function from "spell-check-ui.js" is called. + This function will retrieve all mispelled words from the HTML of the + iframe and will setup the user interface so that it allows correction. +
+ +
+ Unicode safety — the program is
+ Unicode safe. HTML entities are expanded into their corresponding
+ Unicode characters. These characters will be matched as part of the
+ word passed to Aspell. All texts passed to Aspell are in Unicode
+ (when appropriate). However, Aspell seems to not support Unicode
+ yet (thread concerning Aspell and Unicode).
+ This mean that words containing Unicode
+ characters that are not in 0..255 are likely to be reported as "mispelled" by Aspell.
+
+ Update: though I've never seen it mentioned
+ anywhere, it looks that Aspell does, in fact, speak
+ Unicode. Or else, maybe Text::Aspell does
+ transparent conversion; anyway, this new version of our
+ SpellChecker plugin is, as tests show so far, fully
+ Unicode-safe... well, probably the only freeware
+ Web-based spell-checker which happens to have Unicode support.
+
+ The Perl Unicode manual (man perluniintro) states: +
+ ++ + Starting from Perl 5.6.0, Perl has had the capacity to handle Unicode + natively. Perl 5.8.0, however, is the first recommended release for + serious Unicode work. The maintenance release 5.6.1 fixed many of the + problems of the initial Unicode implementation, but for example regular + expressions still do not work with Unicode in 5.6.1. + ++ +
In other words, do not assume that this script is + Unicode-safe on Perl interpreters older than 5.8.0.
+ +The following Perl modules are required:
+ +Of these, only Text::Aspell might need to be installed manually. The + others are likely to be available by default in most Perl distributions.
+ +