On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:53:38PM +0200, Eric Streit wrote:
> hi,
> 
> 
> I am happy to see that dictd is improved, and I will try it very soon.
> 
> But, it drives me another question : I read yesterday everything I could
> find about the protocol and the documentation about dict and dictd in my
> linux box and on the site dict.org. They say that the dictfmt program
> sorts the nouns according to the locale : when I build an russian-french
> dictionnary, this is quite annoying !! the caracters are not in the same
> order than the french locale of my linux box.
> 
> Is it not possible to have an unicode sort order, without changing the
> local "locale", so it would be possible to build dictionnaries in a
> consistent manner ????

exactly that is what I am doing in serpento :-)
but, for you as an end user, internal sorting in dictd is
irrelevant.

> 
> And, I would like to test my "wordinspect2" program which is completely
> UTF8 and only "utf8". Does one dict server exist which does really and
> completely followthe standart ?? (localy or on a internet-site)
> 

serpento does not follow all the details of standard, but
IMHO is quite good as for UTF-8.
see dict server dict.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk

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