needed for all dictionaries that do not want to duplicate contractions and possessives. The only way it can be used is if the characters exist in the current encoding.
As for a dictionary .dic editor, it is simply not easy to do due to the need in most languages for prefix and suffix compression to make the working set size viable.
Yes you can create multiple user wordlists and they should as a general rule match the main dictionary language being used. One good exception is to include foreign words commonly used in another language. For example my user wordlists include some latin terms and abbreviations, some french terms, etc. I also have a scientific word list that has a number of latin terms as well.
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