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On the surface, Enchant appears to be a generic spell checking library. You
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can request dictionaries from it, ask if a word is correctly spelled, get
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corrections for a misspelled word, etc...
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Beneath the surface, Enchant is a whole lot more - and less - than that.
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You'll see that Enchant isn't really a spell checking library at all.
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"What's that?" you ask. Well, Enchant doesn't try to do any of the work
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itself. It's lazy, and requires backends to do most of its dirty work. Looking
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closer, you'll see the Enchant is more-or-less a fancy wrapper around the
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dlopen() system call. Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and conformity
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on top of these libraries, and implement certain features that may be lacking
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in any individual provider library. Everything should "just work" for any and
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every definition of "just working."
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WWW: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/
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