NAME¶
french - a list of french words
DESCRIPTION¶
/usr/share/dict/french is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list
of words, one per line.
FILES¶
/etc/alternatives/dictionary is a symbolic link to a
/usr/share/dict/<language> file.
/usr/share/dict/words is
a symbolic link to
/etc/alternatives/dictionary, and is the name by
which other software should refer to the system word list. See
update-alternatives(8) for more information.
The directory
/usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages,
with name of the language in English, e.g.,
/usr/share/dict/american-english and
/usr/share/dict/danish
contain respectively lists of English and Danish words if they exist. Such
lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
SEE ALSO¶
ispell(1),
update-alternatives(8), and the
Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard.
HISTORY¶
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of
sources.
AUTHOR¶
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.