From: Justin B Rye <j...@xibalba.demon.co.uk>
To: Kęstutis Biliūnas <ke...@kaunas.init.lt>
Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi>
Bcc:
Subject: Re: Bug#525275: dict-freedict-deu-eng: description of "notruf"
contains non-printable chars
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In-Reply-To: <49f234dd.2030...@kaunas.init.lt>
Kęstutis Biliūnas wrote:
>> Notruf [noËtruËf] (n) , s.(m )
>> emergency call
>
> It seems that the reason that in the translation transcriptions are used
> character MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON 'ː' (UTF-8: 0xCB 0x90),
> instead of a simple symbol COLONY ':' (0x3A).
[ː] is the correct length-mark character for use in a phonetic
transcription, and it's only one of many IPA symbols that require
those wordlists to be in UTF-8 - compare the entry for "Geschenkkorb
[gəʃɛŋkɔrp] (n) , s.(m )". The problem is that the bugreporter is
using a legacy ISO-8859-1 charmap. Dict might fail more gracefully,
but it's got to fail.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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