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One of the most frequently asked questions I’ve received since releasing my online spellchecker is how to download the software so that it can be used offline. Although the online spellchecker was not designed for this purpose, the Afrikaans dictionary that drives the spellchecker allows for an offline configuration. Having figured out how this can be done, I’ve decided to document the process. This would allow you to use both the online and offline spellcheckers, depending on your requirements in any specific scenario.

At last I have finished this spellchecker to make it available on my website. This has been the first small project I defined to start my personal website, and I think it has all come together quite nicely. For the time being this will be pretty much all of the functionality that is going to be publicly available on this site, but there are many more ideas that should materialize as this website matures (if I can make time for them).

The main drive behind this effort was to get a spellchecker for the Afrikaans language online. While spellcheckers for English are pretty much a standard feature of many editing software packages, the same cannot be said for Afrikaans (which is also a problem with many other languages used on our planet). And so the Afrikaans spellchecker was born, and as an added bonus the English spellchecker came with hardly any extra effort.