Re: Your dictionaries online!

Wow. As usual, my lack of tech knowledge prevents me from�fully grasping exactly
what this means, but I know it's big.
Thanks,�T.!��-David�*******************************************************************�"sunly
eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."�"No eternal reward will forgive
us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Jan 6, 2009, at 1∞48 PM,
taliesin the storyteller wrote:��> Last september in the thread "Your
dictionary online?"�> http://archives.conlang.info/qe/ghilbhei/tree.html I
mentioned�> the DICT-protocol (RFC2229) which is a (now venerable) way of�>
querying dictionaries over the net.�>�> I was experimenting with a server
and had made a Taruven�> dictionary for it to serve, on a temporary host.
That server and�> dictionary is now on a permanent host, conlang.homeip.net
(might�> be name-changes but the ip-address stays firm.)�>�> Therefore, I
hereby announce that I am willing to host all�> y'all's dictionaries, encoded
as 7-bit ASCII or UTF-8.�> Converting them to a format dict understands is
still not as�> easy as it ought to be but see the old threads and�>
http://www.dict.org/ .�>�> Pick a client, set the server to
conlang.homeip.net and try�> searching for/looking up the word "sïaòy" (s,
i-umlaut, a,�> o-grave, y). That should net you something like what
follows�> (exact formatting will vary):�>�> sïaòy�> sïaòy n. [g]
wind�>�> The clients I have tested so far are: the cli-client dict,
kdict�> for KDE, and the firefox-plugin dict. Changing the server in the�>
latter was a bit of a nuisance (no separate gui for it so I had�> to hack
prefs.js).�>�> * Please help test clients: pick one from the list on�>
http://www.dict.org/w/software/software and reply here with�> your findings.
Yes, there are clients for cell phones :)�> * Contact me directly if you have
a dictionary you wish served.�>�>�> t.�