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Non ASCII characters #1

Open andrey-bm52 opened 4 years ago

andrey-bm52 commented 4 years ago

in j.jason and in q.json files. In words "Jekyll and Hyde", "qabbālāh". "Jekyll and Hyde": { "word": "Jekyll and Hyde", "wordset_id": "a4a55a6b0d", "meanings": [ { "id": "75b8309869", "def": "a person who unpredictably displays two distinct and morally opposed personality traits", "example": "The way they scream at me one minute and apologize the next—it's like they're Jekyll and Hyde!", "speech_part": "noun" } ],

and 

"qabbālāh": {
    "word": "qabbālāh",
    "wordset_id": "2805a6b224",
    "meanings": [
        {
            "id": "efb0ebd478",
            "def": "an esoteric or occult matter resembling the mystical Jewish teachings, based on esoteric writings, that is traditionally secret",
            "example": "Our human resources manual is a bit of a kabala.",
            "speech_part": "noun"
        }
    ],
gardners commented 4 years ago

There are a couple of others as well. Check the changes in my pull-request #3.

HamptonMakes commented 3 years ago

Hey people! We had no idea anyone was using this... 4 years ago @malrase and I spent a year of our life on this and never thought it'd get used... but someone is using it! WE ARE SO HAPPY!

Officially, the dictionary is encoded in UTF-8 and not ASCII. This is That being said, we likely should have ASCII representations of all of the words and definitions since in English that's typically enough. But, I agree that for now these types of very obscure characters in English can just be layered into their ASCII representation.