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.TH italian 5 "31 October 1997" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.SH NAME
italian \- a list of italian words
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B /usr/share/dict/italian
is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.
.SH AUTHOR
This word list has been collected from completely free (GPL'd) sources and
is maintained by Davide G. M. Salvetti .
.SH FILES
.I /etc/dictionary
This is a link to a /usr/share/dict/ file.
.I /usr/share/dict/words
This is linked to /etc/dictionary, it exists for software compatibility.
.PP
The directory
.I /usr/share/dict
can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in
English, e.g.,
.I /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish
contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such
lists should be coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR ispell "(1),"
.IR look "(1)."
.SH History
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of
sources.
.\" local variables:
.\" mode: nroff
.\" ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
.\" end:
.\" LocalWords: italian GPL'd ispell