Microsoft has added the native Windows spell-checking tool to the Chromium codebase as part of its efforts to offer Chrome and Edge users multiple spell-checking options to choose from. Chromium currently uses the ‘Hunspell’ spellchecker that’s also used by a number of other open-source projects like LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Believed to have been first spotted by Windows Latest, the Windows Spellchecker will apparently coexist with Hunspell without replacing it forthright.
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The latest development will allow users of Chromium-based browsers the option to choose their own spellchecking option rather than having to rely on the default software. According to Windows Latest, a new flag called “Use the Windows OS spellchecker” is already available in the latest Chrome Canary build, though it doesn’t seem to be available in Edge Canary just yet. There’s no word on when that will happen, but it shouldn’t take Microsoft too long to implement the change.
