The recommended usage of this port is first to teach your terminal to display hebrew fonts, like this: vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -f 8x16 iso08-8x16.fnt or set this in /etc/rc.conf: font8x16=iso08-8x16.fnt Then, it would be wise to install bidiv from %%PORTSDIR%%/textproc/bidiv and run Hspell: hspell file.txt | bidiv Plus, Hspell can use Ispell as a slave (option -i or executable hspell-i). Ispell can be found in %%PORTSDIR%%/textproc/ispell .