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

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

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 JW> Am 11.07.2005 um 10:48 schrieb Aleksey Cheusov:

 >> .ibdex and .dict files MUST be created using dictfmt utility.
 >> Your files may easily be converted to the correct format like this:

 JW> MUST? Not allowed to be done by another program?

It is always better to use dictfmt utility,
just because it is the only program doing its job in a right way ;)
If you program Perl, it may be easier for you to prepare
dictionary in -c5 format (plain text format) and then run dictfmt.

 >> cat you_dict.dict | dictunformat you_dict.index | dictfmt -t --utf8
 >> new_dict

 JW> cat debian.de-en.dict | dictunformat debian.de-en.index | dictfmt -t
 JW> - --locale de_DE.UTF-8 debian.de-en_new

 JW> Seems to work. Seems it is the alphabet, it is missing. I am not
 JW> sure. But shouldn't that be documented?
 JW> Grabbing the locale from the users settings is not very nice, BTW.

dictfmt-1.10.1 doesn't require --locale option for creating utf-8
dictionaries, --utf-8 option is used instead.
Alder versions required utf-8 locale for initializing
libc's functions iswXXXX and towYYYY.
The only charset part of locale was really needed.

 JW> Aleksey's mail helped me so far, that I can convert my results until
 JW> I know, how to produce a format, that both dictd servers understand.

Probably serpento uses old dictd format (1.5.5).
Last few years a few changes were made in dictd's databases format,
especially for supporting utf-8 dictionaries.
See NEWS files and I hope you'll find description for all these changes.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.