* Aspell can easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. * Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. * Include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

• highlight the potentially wrongly spelled word • offer a context menu with suggestions for a correct form of the word • context menu with options to change the checking language • dialog (when pressing F7 key) to continuously spell check the text • user-defined dictionary for words that are not in the global one (this is an option that appears inside the continuous checking dialog) • translated spell checker GUI so users will see buttons and labels in the language of the current locale • standalone API, no server is required but applets are possible, see the sample. • detects capitalization errors • enable or disable each feature separately