Federico Mena Quintero
federico@gnome.org 2013
Sébastien Wilmet
swilmet@gnome.org 2017
Spell-checking for text widgets
Fran Dieguez
frandieguez@gnome.org 2009-2013.
Leandro Regueiro
leandro.regueiro@gmail.com 2011.

# 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