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<h3 class="section">5.9 Dictionary Naming</h3>
<p>In order for Aspell to be able to correctly recognize a dictionary
based on the setting of the <samp><span class="env">LANG</span></samp> environment variable the
dictionaries need to be located somewhere Aspell can find them and
they need to be <em>multi</em> dictionaries. Where Aspell looks for
dictionaries depends on the value of the <samp><span class="option">dict-dir</span></samp> and
<samp><span class="option">word-list-path</span></samp> option.
<p><samp><span class="option">dict-dir</span></samp> is generally <samp><var>prefix</var><span class="file">/lib/aspell</span></samp>, and
<samp><span class="option">word-list-path</span></samp> is generally empty.
<p>Each dictionary that you expect Aspell to be able to find needs to
have a name in the following format:
<pre class="example"> <var>language</var>[_<var>region</var>][-<var>variety</var>][-<var>size</var>].multi
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<p class="noindent">where <var>language</var> is the two letter language code, <var>region</var> is
the two letter region code, <var>variety</var> 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, <var>size</var> is the size of the dictionary. If no size is
specified then the default size of 60 will be assumed.
<p>For example:
<pre class="example"> en.multi
en_US.multi
en-medical.multi
en-medical-85.multi
en-85.multi
de.multi
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