Bug#292068: dictd: dictd doesn't need the same locale as dictfmt

Package: dictd Version: 1.9.15-1 Severity: normal File: dictd Hi, I think the manpage is out-to-date about the --locale option. For example, now dictd can be started with --locale es_ES.UTF-8 while using a dictionary file dictfmt'ed with de_DE.UTF-8. And dict-freedict-eng-ger should not ask

Bug#292068: dictd: dictd doesn't need the same locale as dictfmt

Hi Ramses, Thanks for the bug report. I think the manpage is out-to-date about the --locale option. I assume that you object to this sentence: The locale used for the server should be the same as that used for dictfmt when the database was built (specifically, the locale under which the

Bug#292068: dictd: dictd doesn't need the same locale as dictfmt

Hi Kirk, Since 7-bit ASCII is a subset of both ISO-8859-1 (latin1) and utf-8 , an ASCII dictionary may be used with any ISO-8859 or utf-8 locale. Yes, that's what i mean. If a dictionary's locale uses the latin1 character set, any latin1 locale may be used for dictd. But RFC says dict