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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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18              use the given personal wordlist
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20       -a     list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
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22       -l     list only the misspellings
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24       -L     display line numbers
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26       -h     display help and exit
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28       -v     display version information and exit
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ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

31       Enchant  uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering
32       to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages.  The
33       per-user file takes precedence.
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35       The  ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of
36       spelling providers>. The language tag is an IETF BCP 47  language  tag,
37       typically  of  the form COUNTRY_LANGUAGE.  To see what dictionaries are
38       available, run enchant-lsmod-2. '*' is used to mean "use this  ordering
39       for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:
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42       en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
43       en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
44       fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
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FILES AND DIRECTORIES

47       Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of
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50       ENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR
51              (If the environment variable is set.)
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53       XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant (non-Windows systems)
54              Default: ~/.config/enchant
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56       CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems)
57              Default: C:\Documents and  Settings\username\Local  Settings\Ap‐
58              plication Data\enchant
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60       /usr/share/enchant
61              (Or  the equivalent location relative to the enchant library for
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64       Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the
65       provider;  for  example,  /usr/share/enchant/hunspell and ~/.config/en‐
66       chant/hunspell.
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68       Some providers may also look in a standard system directory  for  their
69       dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build
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SEE ALSO

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

76       Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.
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