WinEdt Unicode Dictionaries

WinEdt 7 (or later) uses unicode dictionaries. The table below lists currently available unicode dictionaries (word lists) for unicode versions of WinEdt.

The sizes of dictionaries below refer to the zipped archive. The actual size of the word lists is approximately six to eight times larger. Each dictionary is accompanied by a short info describing the relevant information pertaining to that dictionary's creation and installation instructions. You should read this file before downloading and installing the associated dictionary.

Unicode Dictionary	Info	Download	Size	Last change
Afrikaans	Info	Dictionary	615 KB	1998-10-26
Belarusian	Info	Dictionary	2830 KB	2006-06-16
Bulgarian	Info	Dictionary	483 KB	2007-10-22
Catalan	Info	Dictionary	944 KB	2002-01-20
Croatian	Info	Dictionary	133 KB	2002-01-20
Czech	Info	Dictionary	1310 KB	2002-11-07
Danish	Info	Dictionary	1358 KB	1998-10-26
Dutch	Info	Dictionary	1052 KB	2002-08-20
French	Info	Dictionary	1156 KB	2010-05-07
German	Info	Dictionary	2440 KB	2005-01-06
German (CH - old+new sp)	Info	Dictionary	1320 KB	2000-07-21
German (DE - old+new sp)	Info	Dictionary	1329 KB	1999-05-10
Greek	Info	Dictionary	2089 KB	2008-10-03
Hungarian	Info	Dictionary	1413 KB	2003-12-03
Italian	Info	Dictionary	2007 KB	2012-06-18
Latin	Info	Dictionary	3640 KB	2012-11-15
Mongolian	Info	Dictionary	7060 KB	2014-10-07
Polish	Info	Dictionary	1683 KB	1999-01-15
Polish (huge)	Info	Dictionary	10471 KB	2005-06-10
Portuguese	Info	Dictionary	3403 KB	2012-03-28
Portuguese (BR)	Info	Dictionary	814 KB	2000-04-27
Portuguese (PT)	Info	Dictionary	1197 KB	2000-07-20
Romanian	Info	Dictionary	5295 KB	2014-11-25
Russian	Info	Dictionary	3841 KB	2010-11-28
Serbian	Info	Dictionary	622 KB	2010-11-23
Slovak	Info	Dictionary	145 KB	2002-01-20
Slovenian	Info	Dictionary	611 KB	1999-02-24
Spanish	Info	Dictionary	792 KB	1998-06-30
Swedish	Info	Dictionary	465 KB	1998-10-05
Ukrainian	Info	Dictionary	993 KB	2001-04-17

English dictionaries are included and enabled in the default settings. The "How to" section in WinEdt's Help explains how to instal and configure additional dictionaries for multi-lingual users...

WinEdt Dictionaries (Word Lists)

Any word list (a text file consisting of one word per line) can be converted into a WinEdt dictionary by sorting it as a dictionary (Sort Lines dialog) and save it as a unicode (UTF-16) file with BOM and UNIX line terminators (Document Settings dialog). Neglecting to properly sort and save a dictionary will result in increased loading time and possible problems with the spell checking functionality! Words have to be at most 255 characters long and a dictionary can contain at most 16,000,000 lines. These are reasonable limitations for all situations arising in practice. Lines at the beginning of a dictionary starting with % characters are considered comments and are not subject to sorting. That's all. The hard part is compiling a complete word list for any available language.

WinEdt's dictionaries now use unicode (UTF-16) format with BOM and LF as line terminator. This means that older WinEdt 6 (or earlier) ASCII dictionaries are not compatible with the unicode versions of WinEdt. However, the CP Converter section of the Documents Settings dialog makes it is easy to convert any non-unicode dictionary into the new format. Help in the Document Settings dialog gives the details, showing, as an example, how conversion of the Russian dictionary into a unicode (ready to use) format was done.

Contributions

New contributions are welcome! If you've compiled a word list that is currently not available and you would like to share it with others, you can upload it to ftp://ftp.winedt.org/incoming via anonymous ftp and let me know webmaster@winedt.org.

Corrections or additions for existing dictionaries should be directed to the respective maintainer.

Disclaimer: None of WinEdt's dictionary creators/maintainers takes any responsibility for problems, if any, caused by WinEdt or its dictionaries...