Multilingual spell checker of webpages v. 0.7

SpellChecker version 0.7 is available. You give it the URL you want to check and it displays a list of unknown words with suggestions.

Alternatively you can set up a link to http://yoursite/spellcheck/referer on your other webpages and when you follow the link, the spell checker will check the page you came from. Try it yourself with our installation of spell checker.

The demonstration is loaded with dictionaries for the following languages: da - Danish, de - German, en - English (American, British and Canadian), es - Spanish, fr - French, nl - Dutch, no - Norwegian, pt - Portuguese (& Brazilian), sv = Swedish.

Language declarations

There are three reasons you will want to declare the language (English, German, Ukrainian etc.) of your webpage:

Google and Babelfish can detect the language and do machine translation to/from English
Blind people can have the page read to them with the proper pronunciation
The spell checker can figure out what dictionary to use

The checker will look for language declarations in at number of ways: The lang="en" or xml:lang="en" attribute on any tag in the HTML code. You should declare your baseline language on the <html> tag. Also the Content-Language header line from the HTTP server and any <meta> tag with the attribute http-equiv="content-language" W3C has a Tutorial on language information in HTML.

Dependencies

Needs aspell version 0.5 or higher with dictionaries in all the languages you want to support and the aspell-python package (included).

Get the Spell checker software on the Zope site.