DICT

The format created by the DICT Development Group.

The DICT format is used by the dictd software. A dictionary is divided in two files: a .index file and a .dict file. For further information, see

Download

You can download the .index and .dict format for each dictionary directly from the Github Releases.

How to convert

To convert Remède dictionaries databases to the DICT format, there is a prepare.py script.

First, execute the script

python3 dictd/prepare.py

Then, switch to the convert/dictionaries directory. Using dictfmt , generate the .index and .dict files.

dictfmt -e --utf8 --allchars -s "Remède Français" remede < remede.txt
dictfmt -e --utf8 --allchars -s "Remède English" remede.en < remede.en.txt

Remède database are now available in the DICT format at convert/dictionaries .