Dear Monks,

The problem: We need to have a web form for content management have access to a spell checker.

What we can currently do: We have a word list of about 175,000 words that we can compare to, however we lack the ability to offer suggestions for misspelled words.

What we can not do: Unfortunately we can't get ISpell working on our server (see Ispell path for W2K) otherwise we would be using that.

What we're looking for: Any good resources/help on the logic behind spell checking with the ability to suggest words. If you have any ideas we would appreciate it.

Thank you in advance for your help.
Arashi

I'm sure Edison turned himself a lot of colors before he invented the lightbulb. - H.S.

edited: Wed Jul 31 20:44:36 2002 by jeffa - replaced <a href=""> with [id://]

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