From 85220e5498a63e4632f4d2402e93a7450ea5eca5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 13:46:55 +0000
Subject: enchant.1: document format of language tags (see issue #295)

---
 src/enchant.1.in | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/enchant.1.in b/src/enchant.1.in
index 5916a1f..3b85fc5 100644
--- a/src/enchant.1.in
+++ b/src/enchant.1.in
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ Enchant uses global and per-user ordering files named \fIenchant.ordering\fR
 to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages.
 The per-user file takes precedence.
 .PP
-The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling
-providers>. To see what providers are available, run \fIenchant-lsmod-@ENCHANT_MAJOR_VERSION@\fR. '*' is
+The ordering file takes the form \fIlanguage_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling
+providers>\fR. The language tag is an IETF BCP 47 language tag, typically of the form \fICOUNTRY_LANGUAGE\fR.
+To see what dictionaries are available, run \fIenchant-lsmod-@ENCHANT_MAJOR_VERSION@\fR. '*' is
 used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:
 .PP
 *:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
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