Re: [dict-beta] Format for dicts - specs

[Jutta W. <jw...@wi...>]

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Am 10.07.2005 um 06:34 schrieb Michael Bunk:

> I cannot know why you ask when you don't write it.

Okay, it is not standard, tha people read manpages at all.

> Yes, there is nothing more precise than that manpage - no
> spec. You can only read the source.

I'll have to finde someone knowing more C than I do.

>> And wrong sorting makes the dict files work with Serpento?

> For the last question, yes, because serpento sorts each index  
> before using it.
> That is why it has something that it calls "cache". How did you  
> generate your
> own dicts?

I create them with a perl script. The alphabetical order is build  
using the Collate module. The oder is not by byte.
But if I reduce an index file to only a few entries, which are ASCII  
only, and everything is ordered then by byte values, the dicts still  
do not work with dictd.

> Where to find more about perl collocate? Did you make you index  
> with it?

Collate, sorry. Perldoc Unicode::Collate.

>> - Is there a way linking between different dicts?
>>
>
> No standard.

Hmm... Would a good idea to have one as already clients are using  
such features - undocumented.

> Overthere is serpento and I cannot see anything wrong with the dictd
> configuration.

la-sorciere has Serpento installed, yes, Dictd did not work with the  
utf8 file (neither mine nor those fromn freedict (fetched from the web).

I'd install a dictd there too, if it was possible. But the packages  
conflict.

You may get one of those files installed on la-sorciere at http:// 
www.witch.westfalen.de/debian-women/dict/
Taking dward.en is a good idea as there ar no special UTF-8  
characters in it.

hmm.. seems I munged my answers. ;-)

If I find someone who gets the needed information out of the dictd  
source code, I'll try to dcucument it a bit.

greetings

Jutta


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