Re: GNU/Linux Dictionaries

In comp.os.linux.misc, Farley Flud  <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2025 22:17:54 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Wiktionary-supported_software

Thanks for these links.
 
The enwiktionary is available for download but only as XML files and
I'm not sure how I can utilize these.

XML is plain text and can be parsed with Python, Perl, C, ... and
depending on the format you can sometimes half-ass it with just grep.

Wiki recommends GoldenDict as desktop software but GoldenDict only accepts
certain formats.
 
I do not want any web interfaces.  All lookups are to be done locally.

Web interface is not incompatible with done locally. You started this
with dict/dictd, which is a internet service. Just because it is an
internet service doesn't mean the client and the server can't be on the
same machine. I run a local webserver for local files and use either
Firefox or lynx to localhost to access them. But curl would also work.

Elijah
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