
This program is compatible with the ispell utility, but is for non-interactive use only. enchant(1) Check the spelling of some text. Information about the available dictionaries. Older versions are still available from the AbiSource website.Įnchant comes with a couple of command-line utilities: Nuspell (newest spell checker to be used by many other programs, including Firefox and Thunderbird).Hunspell (used by many other programs, including Firefox and Thunderbird).Currently, Enchant has the following backends: BackendsĮnchant is capable of having multiple backends loaded at once.

If it's not convenient to call a C library, youĬan access most of Enchant's functionality via the enchant program, whichĬommunicates over a pipe, like Ispell, and is indeed Ispell-compatible.

Some specialised for particular languages, without needing to program toĮach library's interface. Using Enchant, you can use a wide range of spelling libraries, including Enchant is a library (and command-line program) that wraps a number ofĭifferent spelling libraries and programs with a consistent interface.
