Old-Russian Ispell is a superset of A.I. Lebedev's rus-ispell package that enables spellchecking of texts in old Russian orthography (pre-1918). The KOI8-C encoding is used for representing old Russian characters.
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A dictionary of words frequently used by the Russian Orthodox Church has been added. Dictionary building scripts have been improved (low memory option). This release uses version 0.99f0 of the rus-ispell dictionary.
Semi-automatic translation of texts into the old orthography, support for building Debian packages, a self-contained distribution (including the rus-ispell source code), and dictionary corrections and additions.
This release includes support for the letter
"Izhitsa", support for CP-1251 encoding,
generating of a new orthography dictionary from
the old one, removal of redundant words at compile
time, and some minor bugfixes.