NAME

Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS

enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

-d DICTIONARY: use the given dictionary
-p WORDLIST: use the given personal wordlist
-a: list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
-l: list only the misspellings
-L: display line numbers
-h: display help and exit
-v: display version information and exit

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

Enchant uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages. The per-user file takes precedence.

The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling providers>. The language tag is an IETF BCP 47 language tag, typically of the form COUNTRY_LANGUAGE. To see what dictionaries are available, run enchant-lsmod-2. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

*:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of precedence:

ENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR: (If the environment variable is set.)
XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant (non-Windows systems): Default: ~/.config/enchant
CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems): Default: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\enchant
/usr/share/enchant: (Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library for a relocatable build.)

Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the provider; for example, /usr/share/enchant/hunspell and ~/.config/enchant/hunspell.

Some providers may also look in a standard system directory for their dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build time.

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