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The project aims to provide an efficient extensible abstraction
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for dealing with different spell checking libraries.
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Enchant is meant to provide a generic interface into various existing
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spell checking libraries. These include, but are not limited to:
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* Aspell/Pspell (intends to replace Ispell)
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* Hunspell (an OOo project, also used by Mozilla)
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* Uspell (primarily Yiddish, Hebrew, and Eastern European
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languages - hosted in AbiWord's CVS under the module "uspell")
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* Hspell (Hebrew)
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* Zemberek (Turkish)
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* Voikko (Finnish)
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* AppleSpell (Mac OSX)
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Enchant is also meant to be used in a cross-platform (XP) environment.
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Part of this means that Enchant wants to limit its number of external
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dependencies to 0, or as close is as humanly possible. Also, any
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enchant consumer (i.e. a Word Processor) should not need to know
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about what backend providers Enchant knows about. In fact, Enchant
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shouldn't even need to know this information itself. To accomplish
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this, all of Enchant's providers are DLLs.
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