Sonnet (KDE)

Sonnet is a multilingual spell check program to be included in KDE 4. Sonnet is going to replace kspell2 that was created for KDE 3. The two main goals for Sonnets 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.

External links

* [http://www.linux.com/articles/59963 Article on Sonnet]
* [http://blog.jacobrideout.net/ Developers blog]