Coptic text proofing with Hunspell
Hunspell is a very powerful spelling library / utility with much more options than the well known ispell. It also has a Unicode support and a better suggestion list generation. Specially the twofold prefix stripping is very helpful. You should configure it with:
./configure
--with-ui --with-readline
After installing it, and reading the manual pages, you will notice that every language dictionary is defined by two files. I have created a sort of experimental dictionary with a limited corpus. Actually I needed it while compiling a book about the Coptic liturgies, so it mainly contains these words, but if you find it useful, you can extend it. If you would like to know, how to do this, you can request more information by email.
You can download my latest working dictionary files here (version 0.2)
The current version includes all the Coptic words of the liturgies and the New Testament.
Please notice, that I am still working on it and it is far beyond beeing error free or complete.
The .tgz file contains also a sample test file in the format used by Abiword and in uft8.
Since hunspell is used by OpenOffice and Abiword, it is also possible to integrate this dictionary files in both word processors:
last updated: 15.02.2007
Moheb Mekhaiel
