License

Starting May 2008, the dictionary license has changed to GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1/MPL 1.1. This is the tri-license required by Mozilla.

Official dictionaries

Official versions of Romanian spelling dictionaries are available in all major free/open source projects such as OpenOffice.org, Mozilla and Aspell:

• OpenOffice.org - wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Romanian_.28Romania.29
  Latest version 2008-04-09 (3.1)
• Aspell - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/ro/
  Latest version 3.1
• Mozilla - version 3.1 will be included in Firefox 3 release: nightly development build

Current Linux/*BSD distributions might not carry the latest version. When in doubt, it is always easier to install it manually.

Latest release

The latest release is 3.1 (2008-04-09). Commabelow, cedilla and pre 1993 orthographic reform dictionaries are available. For MacOS use the regular commabelow aspell dictionary from here or from Aspell. A description is as follows:

• aspell5-ro-3.1.tar.bz2 - main Romanian dictionary for aspell 5 and 6 (commabelow)
• ro_RO.3.1.zip - main OpenOffice.org dictionary (hunspell, commabelow)
• aspell5-ro-3.1-cedilla.tar.bz2 - Romanian dictionary for aspell 5 and 6 (cedilla)
• aspell5-ro-3.1-pre1993.tar.bz2 - Romanian dictionary for aspell 5 and 6 (commabelow) using old pre 1993 spelling rules
• hunspell-ro.3.1-2.tar.gz - hunspell archive with all commabelow/cedilla/myspell word list versions; it is licensed in Mozilla tri-license: MPL/LGPL/GPL
• aspell5-ro_3.1-1_i386.deb - Romanian dictionary for aspell 5 and 6 (commabelow) for Debian/Ubuntu

Aspell dictionary - manual install

Download aspell5-ro.xx.tar.bz2, and install it as follows:

 # tar -xjvf aspell5-ro.xx.tar.bz2
 # cd aspell5-ro.xx
 # ./configure
 # make
 # su
 # make install

Ubuntu/Debian dictionary install:

 # dpkg -i aspell5-ro.xx-x_i386.deb

Myspell and hunspell dictionaries - manual install

Download hunspell-ro.xx.tar.gz, followed by:

 # tar -xzvf hunspell-ro.xx.tar.gz
 # cd hunspell-ro.xx

The language specific files are ro_RO.aff and ro_RO.dic. Check the README file, the archive might contain a number of different dictionaries (cedilla, myspell, pre1993). You have to manually copy these files in the place hunspell was installed on your system, for example /usr/share/myspell (ZenWalk), /usr/share/myspell/dicts (Ubuntu), /usr/share/dict/ooo (Mandriva), etc.

In some cases you will need to copy the files in the standard openoffice.org directories:

• Linux: /usr/lib/openoffice.orgx.y/share/dict/ooo/
• Windows: C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org x.y\share\dict\ooo\

where x.y is the OpenOffice.org version you have installed.

You can find a very detailed description of the install process for OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird at www.archeus.ro/lingvistica/CorectorOrtografic .