Sonnet (software)

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Sonnet
Original author(s)KDE
Developer(s)KDE
Stable release
6.0.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 28 February 2024; 25 days ago (28 February 2024)
Repository
TypeSpell checker
Websiteapi.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/sonnet/html/

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:

  • In 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
  • A 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.

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  1. ^ "KDE MegaRelease 6". 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

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