All rights reserved.ĪbiSource, AbiSuite, and AbiWord are trademarks of Dom Lachowicz. This page is Copyright ©2004-2005 the AbiSource community. If this folder does not exist, create it. (like 'brazilian.hash' and 'lietuviu.hash' in the screen shot below). To install a dictionary so that all only you can use it, place it in this folder: /Users//Library/Application Support/AbiSuite/dictionary If this folder does not exist, create it, or start AbiWord while logged in as an administrator. To install a dictionary so that all users can use it, place it in this folder: /Library/Application Support/AbiSuite/dictionary For example, the Catalan dictionary is downloaded as '' and the archive contains the file 'catala.hash'. You should get a file with the extension 'hash' (this may be inside a folder - if so, please ignore any other files in the folder). (Brazilian) Portuguese dictionary since 10.2 However, you can download a number of dictionaries for other languages for AbiWord (see instructions for how to install these below): Language Code (LANG) On different Unices, you'll need to see the package system and documentation to know the provenance and alternatives of the word list.OS X comes with a number of dictionaries, which (as far as I can tell) are: Many other word list packages can be installed they each have the “Provides: wordlist” field: $ aptitude search '?provides(wordlist)' | wc -l The package documentation for wamerican states its word list comes from the SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) project.A common word list package providing that link is the wamerican package.The /usr/share/dict/words file is a symbolic link managed using the Debian “alternatives” system.You should check your operating system's package manager for where the spelling list comes from, how it is generated, and what alternatives are available. That spell-checking procedure is described in the academic paper “Development of a Spelling List”, by M. The convention of including a word list as part of the operating system comes from the spell(1) utility, which uses it for a primitive spell-checking procedure. How is this list generated? Are its contents the same across different Unices?Īre answered “it depends on each different Unix”.

Is there any standard dictating what it must contain?

You're asking multiple questions, but I think the main one is:

Linux english dictionary file