On 2022-09-23 19:36:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> writes: > > If naïve is correct, I find it strange that none of dict-gcide, dict-wn > > and dict-foldoc have it, while they know "naive". Ditto for naïvely vs > > naively in dict-gcide and dict-wn. > > Maybe they don't cope with accent marks? I'm not sure what to tell you > other than that good English dictionaries are (unfortunately) proprietary > and the freely available dictionaries, while useful for many things, are > of poorer quality.
Dictionaries can cope with non-ASCII characters (e.g. fd-eng-fra and fd-fra-eng). But it may be because that dict-gcide has broken encoding (as seen on "cafe", which is listed as "Caf'e", but "naive" is just listed as "naive", and this is from 1913 Webster in particular, though the ï is suggested as ["i] in the definition). > All that said, it *is* much more common than not to omit the diaeresis, > and that is certainly a simple solution to this specific bug. (But as > Pod::Text and Pod::Man maintainer, I'm glad that you reported it because I > think there are deeper bugs in both modules that I need to fix.) Yes, this could be a solution for this bug. However, since there are other potential issues with author names having non-ASCII characters that might be found elsewhere. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
