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.

SEE ALSO

       aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.

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