Various questions

[Mathieu B. <mbl...@ru...>]

Hi all,

Lately, I've been thinking to two new DICT related projetcs but before 
starting them I would like to ensure similar projects don't exist yet.

The first one is a DICT client which would be able to query more than 
one server (in clients such as Kdict, you have to go to the settings 
everytime you want to change the server host)  and which would have a 
simple integrated learning facility (you would be able to add unknown 
words to your personal lexicon and revize them later).

The second project is a DICT server which would provide the bricks to 
developers for adding support for new databases internal formats. For 
example, I would like to create a plugin to deal with dictionaries in 
EPWING format and another one to deal with StarDict dictionaries.

For that purpose, I've started to read the RFC and I have two questions:

- Is it possible to choose more than one database (but not all) for the 
DEFINE command ? I've seen Kdict doing it but I wonder if the results 
weren't filtered from all the databases on the client side.

- About formatting (bold, links etc) of results. Unless I missed 
something, it's not defined in the RFC. Is there a kind of convention 
which is not officially stated in the RFC?

Thanks,
Mathieu