Kaixo! On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:02:34PM +0200, Eric Streit wrote: > > Dictionnaries? If they are dictionnaries following the DICT protocole > > then they *must* be in utf-8, it is a requirement. > > No: > the freelang dictionnaries are not in utf8.
I wasn't aware freelang dictionnaries were usable with Linux; I thought they were Windows only. > No, they or some are not: I just tried the mueller(rusian) dictionnary > in dict format with the command "dict love" in a UTF8 xterm and the > caracters are not in russian. I found out that the encoding was KIOR-8 > (or KOI8-R) That dictionnary violates the protocol, and as such, it will be displayed improperly in all clients that have encoding support. For example, it won't display properly on KDE, Windows or Gnome clients. The bug should be reported to the author(s). Plain text "dict" is a bit special, as it doesn't do anything with the text, it just dumps it on stdout, so the proper display depends on the terminal used. The DICT dictionnaries from freedict use UTF-8 -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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