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NAME

6       Enchant - a spellchecker
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SYNOPSIS

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

12       Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.
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14       -d DICTIONARY
15              use the given dictionary
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17       -a     list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
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19       -l     list only the misspellings
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21       -L     display line numbers
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23       -h     display help and exit
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25       -v     display version information and exit
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ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

28       Enchant  uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering
29       to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages.  The
30       per-user file takes precedence.
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32       The  ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of
33       spelling providers>. To see what providers are available, run  enchant-
34       lsmod-2.  '*'  is  used  to  mean "use this ordering for all languages,
35       unless instructed otherwise." For example:
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38       en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
39       en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
40       fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
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FILES AND DIRECTORIES

43       Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of
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46       ENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR
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50              Default: ~/.config/enchant
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52       CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems)
53              Default:    C:\Documents    and   Settings\username\Local   Set‐
54              tings\Application Data\enchant
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56       /usr/share/enchant
57              (Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library  for
58              a relocatable build.)
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60       Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the
61       provider;  for   example,   /usr/share/enchant/hunspell   and   ~/.con‐
62       fig/enchant/hunspell.
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64       Some  providers  may also look in a standard system directory for their
65       dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build
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SEE ALSO

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

72       Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.
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