ENCHANT-2(1)

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/local/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/local/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.