Re: [dict-beta] converter

[Aleksey C. <vl...@gm...>]

Michael Bunk <bu...@im...> writes:

> Why we can't use "C" locale, ie. byte order?
The .index file for utf-8 dictionaries is sorted by "sort" using
C locale, i.e. byte order.

> I think it would be
> much easier. Do we need some utf8 locale to correctly identify &
> remove punctuation characters from queries & indices?
Yes. This is what iswspace and iswalnum functions are needed for.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.