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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:35:38PM -0500, David Starner wrote:

> > I tried "dict" in an unicode xterm and it doesn't work if I enter
> > caracters which are not in the standart ascii.
> >
> > And another question : is dictd capable of interpreting enter of unicode
> > encoded "nouns" ?
> 
> I don't see why it's important.

It is.
Because it's the server that matches requested words.
For example, if you use a russian dictionnary, then *ALL* characters
are non-ascii ones; that means if the server can't handle properly utf-8
*ANY* request will match *ALL* words of the dictionnary.
Quite useless.

> Yes, dict (the program) and dictd are
> broken. Yes, the authors of dict and dictd don't understand i18n.

It has to be fixed.
I'll look at it when I could find some free time.

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