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On 4 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
          Harriet Bazley  wrote:

[snip]

> Having successfully typed in a string to the reduced Dict window and
> pressed Return, I get a window popping up (with a jumbled Latin-1 title,
> presumably because, as I've noticed with Netsurf, RISC OS doesn't
> support non-Latin characters in title bars) which says
> 
> 1 definition found at pkgs4unix.org
> 
> From Словарь синонимов Н.Абрамова [abr1w]:
> 
>   error: The request is not a valid UTF-8 string
>   
Ah, I think that's because at some point in the past I had configured
!Dict to use Bukinist in its input icon.  So while it displays Cyrillic
at the RISC OS end, it isn't sending Unicode (apparently).

If I reconfigure !Dict to use Cyberbit and switch keyboard mapping to
Russ Uni, then for the string 'shut' (in Cyrillic) I get a variety of
definitions, many of which are either *in* Russian or into languages I
don't speak (Polish, Hebrew), but the third one down is 'jester, fool',
which is the correct answer.   :-)


(I eventually managed to decipher the original word in the video that
was giving me trouble by means of the traditional method of
back-translation, i.e. guessing what it might have been from context and
then looking up the possibilities in the English-Russian dictionary to
see which words matched.  Not 'khust', as I had heard it, but 'kholst',
a painter's canvas - and no wonder I didn't recognise that piece of
vocabulary!)

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

Eschew Obfuscation.