Hi Roland, > > Package: dict-de-en > > Version: 1.4-1 > > Severity: important
> 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. dict-de-en 1.3.5, Still, I can't tell whether the other settings on my system are the same now. Actually, my harddisk broke and I had to start from scratch... > > 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. That's it! Actually I only had "en_US ISO-8859-1" in /etc/locale.gen. I followed your suggestions and added "de_DE UTF-8". Also there were no DICTD_ARGS defined. After using your recommendations dictd runs again. Now, as this problem is solved, everything sounds quite plausible. However, I reckon I would never ever found a solution by myself. :-( Is there a way to check these problems during installation? Maybe some post-install rules in the package? Also a README-file in the package-doc would help. (Sometimes, I read them :-) ) Anyway, thanks a lot for you fast and qualified help. I'm a happy user of dict-de-en, again! All the best, gERD -- +---------------------------+----------------------------------------- + |irc:truss -+- pgp: FAD9CD39| Wer zuletzt lacht, | | http://www.lena.sub.org | hat es nicht eher begriffen. | +---------------------------+----------------------------------------- + -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
