Closed appledispatch closed 9 months ago
These are, unfortunately, present in the source material in most, if not all, cases. You’ll need to look upstream & see if you can submit a ticket or even a patch to the GNU GCIDE project.
You can read about a similar (or same?) issue in #26, specifically please see my comment.
Thanks for your quick and helpful reply. The issue you cited in a similar thread is indeed the same problem I'm referring to (question marks in diamonds). I understand now that this is a source code problem as you mentioned.
The way I initially confirmed my suspicions about the missing characters was through an interesting online dictionary project that must be using a different source without these encoding issues present: https://www.websters1913.com/
I will continue to use your version in the macOS Dictionary as it is so incredibly useful and convenient. Thank you for your work on the project and I exhort you to keep it going. Maybe someday these special characters will be fixed in the source project code.
@appledispatch you’re welcome! And credit to the original developer @ponychicken, I’ve simply glommed on & contributed where I could.
Interesting to learn about websters1913.com! There’s nothing there that shows the source of their data, so who knows?
After installing the 1913 Webster's folder in the macOS Sonoma Dictionaries directory, I'm seeing asterisks and other special characters replaced with question marks within word entries. Is there a way to fix this?