diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidSpellCheckerService.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidSpellCheckerService.java
index 8d495646d..d0316242b 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidSpellCheckerService.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidSpellCheckerService.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.AdditionalSubtypeUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.BinaryDictionaryUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.CollectionUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.LocaleUtils;
+import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.ScriptUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.StringUtils;
 
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
@@ -78,40 +79,8 @@ public final class AndroidSpellCheckerService extends SpellCheckerService
     private final HashSet<WeakReference<DictionaryCollection>> mDictionaryCollectionsList =
             new HashSet<>();
 
-    public static final int SCRIPT_LATIN = 0;
-    public static final int SCRIPT_CYRILLIC = 1;
-    public static final int SCRIPT_GREEK = 2;
     public static final String SINGLE_QUOTE = "\u0027";
     public static final String APOSTROPHE = "\u2019";
-    private static final TreeMap<String, Integer> mLanguageToScript;
-    static {
-        // List of the supported languages and their associated script. We won't check
-        // words written in another script than the selected script, because we know we
-        // don't have those in our dictionary so we will underline everything and we
-        // will never have any suggestions, so it makes no sense checking them, and this
-        // is done in {@link #shouldFilterOut}. Also, the script is used to choose which
-        // proximity to pass to the dictionary descent algorithm.
-        // IMPORTANT: this only contains languages - do not write countries in there.
-        // Only the language is searched from the map.
-        mLanguageToScript = new TreeMap<>();
-        mLanguageToScript.put("cs", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("da", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("de", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("el", SCRIPT_GREEK);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("en", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("es", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("fi", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("fr", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("hr", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("it", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("lt", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("lv", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("nb", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("nl", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("pt", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("sl", SCRIPT_LATIN);
-        mLanguageToScript.put("ru", SCRIPT_CYRILLIC);
-    }
 
     @Override public void onCreate() {
         super.onCreate();
@@ -122,22 +91,13 @@ public final class AndroidSpellCheckerService extends SpellCheckerService
         onSharedPreferenceChanged(prefs, PREF_USE_CONTACTS_KEY);
     }
 
-    public static int getScriptFromLocale(final Locale locale) {
-        final Integer script = mLanguageToScript.get(locale.getLanguage());
-        if (null == script) {
-            throw new RuntimeException("We have been called with an unsupported language: \""
-                    + locale.getLanguage() + "\". Framework bug?");
-        }
-        return script;
-    }
-
     private static String getKeyboardLayoutNameForScript(final int script) {
         switch (script) {
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_LATIN:
+        case ScriptUtils.SCRIPT_LATIN:
             return "qwerty";
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_CYRILLIC:
+        case ScriptUtils.SCRIPT_CYRILLIC:
             return "east_slavic";
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_GREEK:
+        case ScriptUtils.SCRIPT_GREEK:
             return "greek";
         default:
             throw new RuntimeException("Wrong script supplied: " + script);
@@ -413,7 +373,7 @@ public final class AndroidSpellCheckerService extends SpellCheckerService
     }
 
     public DictAndKeyboard createDictAndKeyboard(final Locale locale) {
-        final int script = getScriptFromLocale(locale);
+        final int script = ScriptUtils.getScriptFromLocale(locale);
         final String keyboardLayoutName = getKeyboardLayoutNameForScript(script);
         final InputMethodSubtype subtype = AdditionalSubtypeUtils.createAdditionalSubtype(
                 locale.toString(), keyboardLayoutName, null);
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession.java
index e9d5a7a95..db15c1cc6 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/spellcheck/AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession.java
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import com.android.inputmethod.latin.WordComposer;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.spellcheck.AndroidSpellCheckerService.SuggestionsGatherer;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.CoordinateUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.LocaleUtils;
+import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.ScriptUtils;
 import com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils.StringUtils;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ public abstract class AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession extends Session {
         final String localeString = getLocale();
         mDictionaryPool = mService.getDictionaryPool(localeString);
         mLocale = LocaleUtils.constructLocaleFromString(localeString);
-        mScript = AndroidSpellCheckerService.getScriptFromLocale(mLocale);
+        mScript = ScriptUtils.getScriptFromLocale(mLocale);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -125,44 +126,6 @@ public abstract class AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession extends Session {
         cres.unregisterContentObserver(mObserver);
     }
 
-    /*
-     * Returns whether the code point is a letter that makes sense for the specified
-     * locale for this spell checker.
-     * The dictionaries supported by Latin IME are described in res/xml/spellchecker.xml
-     * and is limited to EFIGS languages and Russian.
-     * Hence at the moment this explicitly tests for Cyrillic characters or Latin characters
-     * as appropriate, and explicitly excludes CJK, Arabic and Hebrew characters.
-     */
-    private static boolean isLetterCheckableByLanguage(final int codePoint,
-            final int script) {
-        switch (script) {
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_LATIN:
-            // Our supported latin script dictionaries (EFIGS) at the moment only include
-            // characters in the C0, C1, Latin Extended A and B, IPA extensions unicode
-            // blocks. As it happens, those are back-to-back in the code range 0x40 to 0x2AF,
-            // so the below is a very efficient way to test for it. As for the 0-0x3F, it's
-            // excluded from isLetter anyway.
-            return codePoint <= 0x2AF && Character.isLetter(codePoint);
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_CYRILLIC:
-            // All Cyrillic characters are in the 400~52F block. There are some in the upper
-            // Unicode range, but they are archaic characters that are not used in modern
-            // Russian and are not used by our dictionary.
-            return codePoint >= 0x400 && codePoint <= 0x52F && Character.isLetter(codePoint);
-        case AndroidSpellCheckerService.SCRIPT_GREEK:
-            // Greek letters are either in the 370~3FF range (Greek & Coptic), or in the
-            // 1F00~1FFF range (Greek extended). Our dictionary contains both sort of characters.
-            // Our dictionary also contains a few words with 0xF2; it would be best to check
-            // if that's correct, but a web search does return results for these words so
-            // they are probably okay.
-            return (codePoint >= 0x370 && codePoint <= 0x3FF)
-                    || (codePoint >= 0x1F00 && codePoint <= 0x1FFF)
-                    || codePoint == 0xF2;
-        default:
-            // Should never come here
-            throw new RuntimeException("Impossible value of script: " + script);
-        }
-    }
-
     private static final int CHECKABILITY_CHECKABLE = 0;
     private static final int CHECKABILITY_TOO_MANY_NON_LETTERS = 1;
     private static final int CHECKABILITY_CONTAINS_PERIOD = 2;
@@ -189,7 +152,7 @@ public abstract class AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession extends Session {
         // Filter by first letter
         final int firstCodePoint = text.codePointAt(0);
         // Filter out words that don't start with a letter or an apostrophe
-        if (!isLetterCheckableByLanguage(firstCodePoint, script)
+        if (!ScriptUtils.isLetterCheckableByScript(firstCodePoint, script)
                 && '\'' != firstCodePoint) return CHECKABILITY_FIRST_LETTER_UNCHECKABLE;
 
         // Filter contents
@@ -210,7 +173,7 @@ public abstract class AndroidWordLevelSpellCheckerSession extends Session {
             if (Constants.CODE_PERIOD == codePoint) {
                 return CHECKABILITY_CONTAINS_PERIOD;
             }
-            if (isLetterCheckableByLanguage(codePoint, script)) ++letterCount;
+            if (ScriptUtils.isLetterCheckableByScript(codePoint, script)) ++letterCount;
         }
         // Guestimate heuristic: perform spell checking if at least 3/4 of the characters
         // in this word are letters
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/utils/ScriptUtils.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/utils/ScriptUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4dfb38d80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/utils/ScriptUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.android.inputmethod.latin.utils;
+
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
+
+/**
+ * A class to help with handling different writing scripts.
+ */
+public class ScriptUtils {
+    public static final int SCRIPT_LATIN = 0;
+    public static final int SCRIPT_CYRILLIC = 1;
+    public static final int SCRIPT_GREEK = 2;
+    public static final TreeMap<String, Integer> mLanguageToScript;
+    static {
+        // List of the supported languages and their associated script. We won't check
+        // words written in another script than the selected script, because we know we
+        // don't have those in our dictionary so we will underline everything and we
+        // will never have any suggestions, so it makes no sense checking them, and this
+        // is done in {@link #shouldFilterOut}. Also, the script is used to choose which
+        // proximity to pass to the dictionary descent algorithm.
+        // IMPORTANT: this only contains languages - do not write countries in there.
+        // Only the language is searched from the map.
+        mLanguageToScript = new TreeMap<>();
+        mLanguageToScript.put("cs", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("da", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("de", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("el", SCRIPT_GREEK);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("en", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("es", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("fi", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("fr", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("hr", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("it", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("lt", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("lv", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("nb", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("nl", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("pt", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("sl", SCRIPT_LATIN);
+        mLanguageToScript.put("ru", SCRIPT_CYRILLIC);
+    }
+    /*
+     * Returns whether the code point is a letter that makes sense for the specified
+     * locale for this spell checker.
+     * The dictionaries supported by Latin IME are described in res/xml/spellchecker.xml
+     * and is limited to EFIGS languages and Russian.
+     * Hence at the moment this explicitly tests for Cyrillic characters or Latin characters
+     * as appropriate, and explicitly excludes CJK, Arabic and Hebrew characters.
+     */
+    public static boolean isLetterCheckableByScript(final int codePoint, final int script) {
+        switch (script) {
+        case SCRIPT_LATIN:
+            // Our supported latin script dictionaries (EFIGS) at the moment only include
+            // characters in the C0, C1, Latin Extended A and B, IPA extensions unicode
+            // blocks. As it happens, those are back-to-back in the code range 0x40 to 0x2AF,
+            // so the below is a very efficient way to test for it. As for the 0-0x3F, it's
+            // excluded from isLetter anyway.
+            return codePoint <= 0x2AF && Character.isLetter(codePoint);
+        case SCRIPT_CYRILLIC:
+            // All Cyrillic characters are in the 400~52F block. There are some in the upper
+            // Unicode range, but they are archaic characters that are not used in modern
+            // Russian and are not used by our dictionary.
+            return codePoint >= 0x400 && codePoint <= 0x52F && Character.isLetter(codePoint);
+        case SCRIPT_GREEK:
+            // Greek letters are either in the 370~3FF range (Greek & Coptic), or in the
+            // 1F00~1FFF range (Greek extended). Our dictionary contains both sort of characters.
+            // Our dictionary also contains a few words with 0xF2; it would be best to check
+            // if that's correct, but a web search does return results for these words so
+            // they are probably okay.
+            return (codePoint >= 0x370 && codePoint <= 0x3FF)
+                    || (codePoint >= 0x1F00 && codePoint <= 0x1FFF)
+                    || codePoint == 0xF2;
+        default:
+            // Should never come here
+            throw new RuntimeException("Impossible value of script: " + script);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static int getScriptFromLocale(final Locale locale) {
+        final Integer script = mLanguageToScript.get(locale.getLanguage());
+        if (null == script) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("We have been called with an unsupported language: \""
+                    + locale.getLanguage() + "\". Framework bug?");
+        }
+        return script;
+    }
+}