1 .TH WORDLIST 5 "16 June 2003" "Debian" "Users' Manual"
3 WORDLIST \- a list of English words
5 .B /usr/share/dict/WORDLIST
6 is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
9 There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/.
10 .I /etc/dictionaries-common/words
11 is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
12 .I /usr/share/dict/<language>
14 .I /usr/share/dict/words
16 .IR /etc/dictionaries-common/words ,
17 and is the name by which other software should refer to the
20 .BR select-default-wordlist (8)
21 for more information, and/or to change the currently-chosen word list.
25 can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language
27 .I /usr/share/dict/french
29 .I /usr/share/dict/danish
30 contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.
31 Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
34 .BR select-default-wordlist (8),
36 .I Filesystem Hierarchy
39 The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
42 The system word list used to be
44 For compatibility, software should check that location if
45 .I /usr/share/dict/words
48 Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.
49 The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell-
50 Checker Oriented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is
51 Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.