aspell: Dictionary Naming
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1 5.9 Dictionary Naming
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1 In order for Aspell to be able to correctly recognize a dictionary
1 based on the setting of the `LANG' environment variable the
1 dictionaries need to be located somewhere Aspell can find them and they
1 need to be _multi_ dictionaries. Where Aspell looks for dictionaries
1 depends on the value of the `dict-dir' and `word-list-path' option.
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1 `dict-dir' is generally `PREFIX/lib/aspell', and `word-list-path' is
1 generally empty.
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1 Each dictionary that you expect Aspell to be able to find needs to
1 have a name in the following format:
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1 LANGUAGE[_REGION][-VARIETY][-SIZE].multi
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1 where LANGUAGE is the two letter language code, REGION is the two
1 letter region code, VARIETY is any extra information to distinguish the
1 word list from other ones with the same language and spelling.
1 Multiple varieties can be used by separating them with a '-'. Finally,
1 SIZE is the size of the dictionary. If no size is specified then the
1 default size of 60 will be assumed.
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1 For example:
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1 en.multi
1 en_US.multi
1 en-medical.multi
1 en-medical-85.multi
1 en-85.multi
1 de.multi
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