The archive hunspell-1.7.2-win64.zip contains 64-bit binaries and
English, German and French dictionaries.

(release 2025-02-02)

Hunspell is a free spell checker by László Németh, which may be used
(among others) with a text editor like Emacs: Emacs requires an external
spell checker.

Recommendation for installation of hunspell for emacs: 

 - copy the directory tree of this archive to c:\ which should result in
   c:\hunspell-w64\... 
 
 - add c:\hunspell-w64\bin to the list of directories assigned to the 
   PATH environment variable 
   
 - assign the directory (folder), where hunspell.exe can find
   dictionaries, to the DICPATH environment variable, e.g.:
   
   set DICPATH=c:\hunspell-w64\share\hunspell

 - if Hunspell is to be used together with Emacs, the following line
   should be entered into Emacs' configuration file (e.g. ".emacs"):

   (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Users/username/.hunspell_personal")

   it defines path and name of the personal dictionary. Please change
   "username" to your own "home-directory" name.  If the file
   ".hunspell_personal" does not already exist, please create it, e.g. with
   the command:

   echo. > .hunspell_personal

   in your home directory, otherwise hunspell is not able to add entries
   to this personal dictionary.

The installed dictionaries were provided by:

   https://github.com/bataak/dictionaries-hunspell

The user may add more hunspell dictionaries (i.e. pairs of .aff and .dic
files) to the c:\hunspell-w64\share\hunspell directory.

The hunspell man page is available in c:\hunspell-w64\share\man\man1 in
in .man and in .html format.

Source code and more information on hunspell can be found on: 

    https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell

Binary files including hunspell.exe were compiled with gcc of the
MinGW-w64 project and Msys2. 

This compiled application is available without any warranty. No support
is provided. Information on problems, however, is always welcome.

Volker Kiefel
2025-02-02


Releases       Changes
------------   ---------------------------------------------------------
2023-12-18     initial release

2023-12-30     - default installation path changed to c:\hunspell-w64
	       - all dictionaries are now utf-8 encoded
               - this file, README.txt, was updated

2025-02-02     this file, README.txt, was updated: 'If the file
               ".hunspell_personal" does not already exist ... not able
	       to add entries to this personal dictionary.' was added
