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LCA · 03-20-2017, 04:01 AM

It does work for ISO639 language codes like "de" or "fr" but apparently does not take account of codes with variant tags like "de-1901" or "de-1996" according to RFC 1766 and RFC 5646. The codes "de-1901" (German, old spelling) and "de-1996" (German, new spelling) are ok (see here; they are mentioned in RFC 5646, too).

Now, it happens that a text in the main part complies with new spelling, but contains citations using the old spelling. For both spelling variants dictionaries are installed in Calibre (new spelling as "dic-0SKY2G" and old spelling as "dic-1MYkc4") and there is a mapping

"preferred_dictionaries": {
"deu-DE": "dic-0SKY2G"
}

in prefs.json. What would be needed is a way to let the code "de-1996" map to "dic-0SKY2G" and "de-1901" map to "dic-1MYkc4".

@Kovid: I do not see how to follow your suggestion. Should I install a dictionary I would not use (e.g. Khmer) and copy the files from the German variant to the corresponding directory under ~/config/calibre/dictionaries? That would be an ugly hack.

In general, a situation as described above is IMHO not exotic but quite common. For instance, a scientific text would have the main part in American English but may contain lengthy verbatim citations in British English. So both language variants would be needed simultaneously.

03-20-2017, 04:01 AM	#4
LCA Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: calibre	It does work for ISO639 language codes like "de" or "fr" but apparently does not take account of codes with variant tags like "de-1901" or "de-1996" according to RFC 1766 and RFC 5646. The codes "de-1901" (German, old spelling) and "de-1996" (German, new spelling) are ok (see here; they are mentioned in RFC 5646, too). Now, it happens that a text in the main part complies with new spelling, but contains citations using the old spelling. For both spelling variants dictionaries are installed in Calibre (new spelling as "dic-0SKY2G" and old spelling as "dic-1MYkc4") and there is a mapping "preferred_dictionaries": { "deu-DE": "dic-0SKY2G" } in prefs.json. What would be needed is a way to let the code "de-1996" map to "dic-0SKY2G" and "de-1901" map to "dic-1MYkc4". @Kovid: I do not see how to follow your suggestion. Should I install a dictionary I would not use (e.g. Khmer) and copy the files from the German variant to the corresponding directory under ~/config/calibre/dictionaries? That would be an ugly hack. In general, a situation as described above is IMHO not exotic but quite common. For instance, a scientific text would have the main part in American English but may contain lengthy verbatim citations in British English. So both language variants would be needed simultaneously.