bug#26308: [PATCH -v2] services: dict.scm: Support more dicod configuration

[huang ying]

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "Huang, Ying" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> While I was at it, I wrote a simple test for the dicod service:
>>>
>>>   
>>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=985a8599ed742053b52ac85f753c4feb54af93cb
>>>
>>> It uses the example handler that you gave in the doc, but I think this
>>> handler actually does nothing because WordNet does not provide data in
>>> the dict.org format AIUI (and its data is under “/dict” anyway.)  Is
>>> that correct?
>>>
>>> Do you have another example in mind that could use a dict.org-formatted
>>> database?
>>
>> There are dict.org dict for wordnet and foldoc in Debian.  Some
>> conversion tool is needed to convert the dict database file.
>
> OK.  Any idea of a DICT database file that we could use as an example
> and as a test?

I found there is freedict database file, for example,

https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freedict/English%20-%20French/0.1.4/freedict-eng-fra-0.1.4.tar.bz2?r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Ffreedict%2Ffiles%2FEnglish%2520-%2520French%2F0.1.4%2Ffreedict-eng-fra-0.1.4.tar.bz2%2Fdownload&ts=1491090445&use_mirror=excellmedia

The home page is http://freedict.org/en/, the github page is
http://freedict.org/en/, according to
https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/blob/master/eng-fra/COPYING,
the database file is released with GPL.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.