Federico Mena Quintero
federico@gnome.org 2013
Sébastien Wilmet
swilmet@gnome.org 2017

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Spell-checking for text widgets

# Spell-checking

Several libraries are available to do spell-checking related tasks: Enchant and gspell.

Enchant provides a low-level API. You can ask it if a word is misspelled, or ask for suggestions for a misspelled word. On a higher level, gspell integrates spell-checking for GTK text widgets (both `GtkEntry` and `GtkTextView`).

In GNOME, those libraries get used in text-heavy applications like gedit (a text editor) and Epiphany (a web browser, for text entry in web forms).

Enchant home page

gspell home page