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<h3 class="section">5.7 Format of the Personal and Replacement Dictionaries</h3>
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<h4 class="subsection">5.7.1 Format of the Personal Dictionary</h4>
<p>The personal dictionary generally has a filename of the form:
<pre class="example"> .aspell.<var>lang</var>.pws
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<p class="noindent">And the file itself contains two parts. The first part is a
header line of the form:
<pre class="example"> personal_ws-1.1 <var>lang</var> <var>num</var> <i>[</i><var>encoding</var><i>]</i>
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<p class="noindent">where <var>num</var> is the number of words in the list. This number is
only used as a hint, and thus does not have to be accurate. When
creating a new dictionary it is perfectly acceptable for <var>num</var> to
be 0. The <var>encoding</var> is optional and specifies the encoding of
the word list. If it is left out the encoding is expected to be in
the default encoding for the language as specified by the
<samp><span class="option">data-encoding</span></samp> option. See <a href="data_002dencoding.html#data_002dencoding">data-encoding</a>.
<p>The second part of simply a word list with one word per line.
<h4 class="subsection">5.7.2 Format of the Personal Replacement Dictionary</h4>
<p>The personal replacement dictionary generally has a filename of the form:
<pre class="example"> .aspell.<var>lang</var>.prepl
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<p class="noindent">And the file itself contains two parts. The first part is a
header line of the form:
<pre class="example"> personal_repl-1.1 <var>lang</var> <var>num</var> <i>[</i><var>encoding</var><i>]</i>
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<p class="noindent">where <var>num</var> is currently unused and thus always 0. As with the
personal dictionary the <var>encoding</var> is optional.
<p>The second part simply a list of replacements with one replacement
per line with each replacement pair has the following format:
<pre class="example"> <var>misspelled_word</var> <var>correction</var>
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