stardict is case-sensitive

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stardict is case-sensitive #8

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Some dicts use upper-case first letter for words. In stardict this looks like a 
mess. E.g. entering "talker" and "Talker" shows completely different set of 
articles.

So:
1. I guess there's no "rule of thumb" for this. At least I haven't seen any.
2. Stardict doesn't handle it properly.
Please fix.

An example of such a dictionary is GCIDE: 
http://sisyphus.ru/ru/srpm/Sisyphus/dict-gcide/get

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ildar.mulyukov on 19 Sep 2011 at 9:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

In English dictionaries normally only proper nouns should be capitalized.

Original comment by Chris.F...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2013 at 10:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

A program can be used with input data (dictionaries) from various sources.
You can't expect all of them will be as you write. Moreover, the rule you
refer isn't anywhere in stardict dictionary format standard, right?
Wisedict already implemented the fix, but I'm a little slow on taking a
migration.

Original comment by ildar.mulyukov on 9 Aug 2013 at 4:21