>> The problem is that, given the way that the locales package works
>> (with locales built by locale-gen), there is no means that I know of
>> to create a dependency on there being a UTF-8 locale built.
TP> I don't understand why locales are necessary to allow dictd to read
TP> UTF-8 dictionnaries. It's possible to read UTF-8 mails on an ISO-8859
TP> only system, so why dictd cannot do the same ?
It easy. dictd prior to 1.10.1 uses libc functions
isw{alpha,alnum,...} and tow{upper,lower}
which are locale sensitive.
If you dislike this, upgrade dictd to the latest versions.
TP> BTW, who is the upstream author of dictd ?
me
TP> Is there a CVS somewhere ?
http://sf.net/projects/dict
TP> Mailing-list ?
www.dict.org
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