Hi gERD!
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, gERD Schaufelberger wrote:
> Package: dict-de-en
> Version: 1.4-1
> Severity: important
> Dict-server (dictd) runs fine on my installation and I use it a lot.
> As soon as I upgraded to version 1.4.1 of dict-de-en dictd does not
> start any more. :-(
What version of dict-de-en did you use before? Maybe that's a hint,
why you have these problems, while dict-de-en 1.4-1 runs without
problems on my system.
> Removing dict-de-en from the dict-server's configuration solves the
> problem. Thus I removed the package - voila, dictd starts up again.
Maybe it's one of these UTF-8 problems we had in the past? What
DICTD_ARGS did you define in /etc/default/dictd? I use
DICTD_ARGS="$DICTD_ARGS --locale=de_DE.UTF-8"
If you don't use an UTF-8 locale here (and have this UTF-8 locale
installed via /etc/locale.gen (you can add new locales by running
"dpkg-reconfigure locales")), you may run into trouble, because
dict-de-en is UTF-8 encoded. Prior to version 1.2-5 dict-de-en was
latin-1 encoded, which caused trouble, because this means that all
dictionaries have to be latin-1 encoded, so UTF-8 may be the better
decision because with UTF-8 we can cover most languages of the world.
Please tell me, whether you can solve the problem by changing
DICTD_ARGS or your locale settings. You do not need to set your
private locale environment to UTF-8 (I personally also stay with
latin1), but dictd has to run in an UTF-8 environment to work correct.
Then you can run dictl(1) instead of dict(1) to convert the UTF-8
output of dict to latin1.
Tschoeeee
Roland
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