offdict: A Rust repository from planetoryd

Offline dictionary with open formats

Totally offline performant dictionary, with prefix fuzzy autocompleting search, live, and clipboard watching (lookup by selection on Linux).

To import dictionaries
1. Just grab a data folder from somewhere (might have vulnerability)
2. or, ⚠️import with 🅰️./offdict yaml -p '*.yaml' ⚠️(supports wildcard *)
3. ⚠️Then build the index 🅱️./offdict build ⚠️
Input anywhere to start live search.
Copy/select anything to look up.
1. Tap ctrl+alt+c or it won't show up
2. Select the text, or in some cases, you have to copy it. (explanation below)
Press ⬅️ or ➡️ for scrolling
Tap Enter to perform an extensive & expensive search
It loads config.json5 in the working directory. example file
Install userscript that monitors selection in browsers
- You have to set the IP of Offdict by changing a variable.

API:

git clone --recurse-submodules <url>
apt install libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev # required for building clipboard-master

Format I camp up with deliberately when cleaning up some dictionary files
- API server
- REPL
- GUI (tauri)

I personally have some Chinese-English dictionary source files. I cleaned up the data into open formats, and this program is specifically for that.

It may return suboptimal results due to inferior algorithms while I'm trading for speed over accuracy. Better algorithms only exist on papers or are commercial at the time of implementing.
IBus seems to write into the PRIMARY of X11 (when I am using Wayland), which was intended to be user selection
Wayland can't set window on top tauri-apps/tauri#3117 You have to set it manually (temporarily or permanently through system settings)
Wayland global shortcut tauri-apps/tauri#3578
IME doesnt work in the input on Wayland
Cannot watch clipboard on wayland.

For now GDK_BACKEND=x11 is set by hardcode

Lookup by selection only works in XWayland windows.
IBus still messes with Primary (only in windows named 'Chromium Clipboard', like, it doesnt happen in firefox)
- workaround: Ignore Chromium Clipboards
- The change also propagates to Wayland primary
Global shortcut ctrl+alt+c works

Complete support for 'lookup by copy' and 'lookup by selection'
- Wayland. Upstream dependecies are not yet working
- https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard works
Lookup by cursor pointing ?
- Embed it in other applications