.TH POLISH 5 "March 29th, 2011" "Debian Project" "Debian"
.SH NAME
polish \- a list of Polish words
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B /usr/share/dict/polish
is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
line.
.SH FILES
.I /etc/dictionaries\-common/words
is a symbolic link to a
.I /usr/share/dict/<language>
file.
.I /usr/share/dict/words
is a symbolic link to
.IR /etc/dictionaries\-common/words ,
and is the name by which other software should refer to the
system word list.
See
.BR select\-default\-wordlist (8)
for more information.
.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
.I /usr/share/dict/danish
contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.
Such lists should be coded using the UTF-8 character set encoding.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ispell (1),
.BR select\-default\-wordlist (8),
and the
.I Filesystem Hierarchy
.IR Standard .
.SH HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
of sources.
.PP
The system word list used to be
.IR /usr/\&dict/words .
For compatibility, software should check that location if
.I /usr/share/dict/words
does not exist.
.SH AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.