GNU dico version 2.12

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Tue Dec 31 10:13:11 2024.

GNU dico version 2.12 is available for download from GNU.ORG.UA and the main GNU archives.

This versions provides important improvements in the gcide module:

• idxgcide skips duplicated headwords.
• Fixed some gcide entities, introduced missing ones.
• Fixed Ancient Greek transliteration.

New option: "watch"

When given this option, the module will watch for modifications in the dictionary corpus files and rebuild the index file when necessary.

HTML output

HTML output is enabled by the "html" module option. It is produced only after "OPTION MIME" command command.

Input conversions

The argument to DEFINE or MATCH command can optionally be modified before being used in actual search. This allows, for example, to input search terms in transliteration instead of in the actual script.

Conversions are implemented by loadable modules and are associated with individual databases.

This version is shipped with the new module greek_kbd, which implements Greek transliteration.

Dicoweb

• Switch to Python 3.11+ with type hints
• Upgrade Django to version 4.2
• Improve desktop and mobile views using HTML5
• Implement a dark mode
• Use Poetry and pyproject.toml
• Integrate Pylint and Mypy for development
• Implement various fixes and improvements

pcre module now requires libpcre2

Support for obsolescent libpcre has been withdrawn.