Description:

This project aims to provide an efficient, extensible abstraction for
dealing with different spell checking libraries. Enchant is meant to
provide a generic interface into various existing spell checking
libraries. These include, but are not limited to: Aspell/Pspell,
Ispell, Hspell, Uspell.

Enchant is also meant to be used in a cross-platform environment. Part
of this means that Enchant wants to limit its number of external
dependencies to 0, or as close is as humanly possible. Also, any
enchant consumer (i.e. a Word Processor) should not need to know about
what backend providers Enchant knows about. In fact, Enchant shouldn't
even need to know this information itself. To accomplish this, all of
Enchant's providers are dynamically loaded modules.

Enchant is also meant to be used in a multi-user environment, such as
Unix. It is preferable to have both a $USER and a $GLOBAL location for
both provider modules and for dictionaries themselves, when possible.
Enchant's module location algorithm takes this into account, and gives
preference to the $USER resources, when found.