Install Aspell and all the Aspell dictionaries you need. The Windows port is not currently maintained, but you can get the 0.5 version from http://aspell.net/win32/ This has installers for the program and the dictionaries. Activate spellchecking by setting two properties in doc/doc.build.user. You may have to use the DOS 8.3 version if the path includes spaces, as the Aspell.bat batch file doesn't handle them well. eg. for the default installation use: This folder contains spellchecker dictionaries for Aspell. One for each language and a generic template file that is copied to each language. TortoiseSVN.tmpl.pws: Generic dictionary of terms & Keywords used in the TortoiseSVN manual. This file is language independent and is copied to each target language (named temp.pws), when the translation takes place. de.pws, en.pws, ...: Dictionaries of terms for each language. The process is still kludgy: - Aspell doesn't work for Asian languages (yet). No fix available. - It needs a batch file to run Aspell from nant due to IO redirection problems. No fix found for this. - It will fail if .pws doesn't exist yet. Create a text file .pws that just contains the line: "personal_ws-1.1 0" where is the country code. Look in de.pws or en.pws for examples. Add your terms after this line. The output of the spellchecking process is written to "spellcheck_.log".