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On the surface, Enchant appears to be a generic spell checking library.
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You can request dictionaries from it, ask if a word is correctly
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spelled, get 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.
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Looking closer, you'll see the Enchant is more-or-less a fancy wrapper
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around the dlopen() system call. Enchant steps in to provide uniformity
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and conformity on top of these libraries, and implement certain features
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that may be lacking in any individual provider library. Everything
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should "just work" for any and every definition of "just working".
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