Hunspell dictionary for German, traditional orthography
This repository contains the dictionary and affixes files for use with Hunspell. They help spell checking documents in German with the traditional orthography officially in use until 1996.
The files were derived from the files de_DE.dic and de_DE.aff contained
in the package hunspell-de-de of Ubuntu 20.04. I back-ported them to the
traditional orthography:
- Conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. This helps with various Hunspell bugs, e.g. hunspell/hunspell#688 or using “ō” or “ſ” in documents. It’s not a bad idea anyway.
- ss → ß in many places.
- Removal of support for the “Binnen-I”.
- Application of the items of https://www.korrekturen.de/wortliste.shtml for
migration to traditional orthography, with the following exceptions:
- tripple consonants in all cases (“Betttuch”)
- kept modern words (e.g. “Aftershave”)