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| From | Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Configure country |
| Date | 2025-10-04 21:12 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <073faf665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (10 earlier) <912342665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <3feb83665c.Matthew@sinenomine.co.uk> <410ea2665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5c66a31fd7Paul@sprie.nl> <89e7ab665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> |
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.
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