polish(5)

polish5

A list of polish words

Overview

/usr/share/dict/polish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

Files

/etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file. /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software should refer to the system word list. See select-default-wordlist(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/french and /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.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.2–3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0–6.0
  5. 7–13

History

The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words. For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.

Author

Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

From wpolish 20240901-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.