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