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ceefour / xdxf-dicts

XDXF conversion of open source and freely available dictionaries, especially from Ubuntu packages
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Say thank you to @soshial #1

Closed ceefour closed 10 years ago

ceefour commented 10 years ago

Say thank you to @soshial of https://github.com/soshial/xdxf_makedict fame for making this possible :)

ceefour commented 10 years ago

Done :)

soshial commented 10 years ago

I'm grateful for you tribute to my work. I wonder how you did the conversion and whether there would be other dicts converted :)

ceefour commented 10 years ago

Thanks @soshial for noticing :)

The hardest part is building makedict ;)

After that the steps are simple:

  1. Install the preferred dict-* from Ubuntu package
  2. Copy the files from /usr/share/dictd/*.{index|dict.dz}
  3. dictunzip the dict.dz file
  4. The real workhorse: makedict -o xdxf *.dict.dz
  5. Voila! :)

However, makedict seem to support only UTF-8 (which is fine BTW! I'm so glad for it. I'd be in trouble if you had only supported ASCII or no proper encoding support). But I've found one dictionary, gcide, that is ISO-8859-1 encoded and therefore causes makedict to throw error during conversion (due to invalid UTF-8 bytes). But after I convert the gcide.dict file's encoding to UTF-8 via iconv, then makedict can process it successfully. :-) Do you want me to report this as bug?

ceefour commented 10 years ago

@soshial As for other dicts...... yes, my plan is to convert most if not all dicts available in Ubuntu packages to XDXF and make it available here. But this will take time, hopefully I can finish them all. :)

ceefour commented 10 years ago

@soshial I thank you very much for working on XDXF & makedict. It makes my life easier, because reading DICT format directly is hard.

After converting to XDXF via makedict, I use Python to process the resulting XDXF files and it's very easy... because Python has superb XML support and everything is UTF-8 encoded so I don't have to worry about strange characters, parsing, escaping, etc.

ceefour commented 10 years ago

@soshial I just found out that all the dictionaries are already available since long time ago in http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/dicts-XDXF/dictd04/ ;-)

Hehe... I didn't do my research well. Anyway, I learned something in this process :)

soshial commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately, makedict does not comply with the latest standard of XDXF anymore, that is why you XDXF dicts are unlikely to be opened by dicts :(