.TH ENCHANT-2 1
.SH NAME
Enchant \- a spellchecker
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B enchant-2
\fB\-a\fR|\fB\-l\fR|\fB\-h\fR|\fB\-v\fR [\fB\-L\fR] [\fB\-d\fR \fIDICTIONARY\fR] [\fIFILE\fR]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Enchant
is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.
.TP
\fB\-d \fIDICTIONARY\fR
use the given dictionary
.TP
\fB\-p \fIWORDLIST\fR
use the given personal wordlist
.TP
.B "\-a"
list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
.TP
.B "\-l"
list only the misspellings
.TP
.B "\-L"
display line numbers
.TP
.B "\-h"
display help and exit
.TP
.B "\-v"
display version information and exit
.SH ENCHANT ORDERING FILE
Enchant uses global and per-user ordering files named \fIenchant.ordering\fR
to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages.
The per-user file takes precedence.
.PP
The ordering file takes the form \fIlanguage_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling
providers>\fR. The language tag is an IETF BCP 47 language tag, typically of the form \fICOUNTRY_LANGUAGE\fR.
To see what dictionaries are available, run \fIenchant-lsmod-2\fR. '*' is
used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:
.PP
*:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
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en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
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en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
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fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
.SH FILES AND DIRECTORIES
Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of precedence:
.TP
\fIENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR\fR
(If the environment variable is set.)
.TP
\fIXDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant\fR (non-Windows systems)
Default: \fI~/.config/enchant\fR
.TP
\fICSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\\enchant\fR (Windows systems)
Default: \fIC:\\Documents and Settings\\\fRusername\fI\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\enchant
.TP
\fI/usr/share/enchant\fR
(Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library for a relocatable build.)
.PP
Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the
provider; for example, \fI/usr/share/enchant/hunspell\fR and
\fI~/.config/enchant/hunspell\fR.
.PP
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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR aspell (1),
.BR enchant-lsmod-2 (1)
.SH "AUTHOR"
Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.