On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:11:43PM +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > Kaixo! > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > > Yes, dict (the program) and dictd are > > > > broken. Yes, the authors of dict and dictd don't understand i18n. > > > > > > It has to be fixed. > > > > Uhm, it is fixed. At least that is my impression > > form dict-beta mailing list (not perfectly, you have to run server > > under UTF-8 locale etc....). > > Mmhhh... since the protocol *mandates* the use of UTF-8 it doesn't make > sense to have the server being locale-dependent.
it indeed does not, but it keeps backward compatibility > > Anyway, it doesn't change anything for me with ditcs 1.5.5 from the announcement of a new dictd (1.8.0): Thanks to Aleksey Cheusov, a new version of dictd is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/ and from ftp://ftp.dict.org (slow). Many thanks to Aleksey for making the changes and enhancements necessary for this release! I think a summary of major changes is (did I miss anything major?): 0) better 8bit, UTF-8, and i18n support 1) dictfmt is now part of the dictd tarball 2) dictd supports plugins 3) dictd will use system libz when possible > > > I do not know more details, since I am happily using serpento > > as UTF-8 dict server :-) > > An url ? http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/serpento/ > As I serve a DICT dictionnary (at moti.walo.org) for a language that > has a lot of words distinguished only by accents, it is quite annoying > to have the server return a lot of unwanted words. > that's why I wrote serpento in the first place (dictd was unusable at that time for UTF-8) > Thanks Ez horregatik -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
