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

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