goldendict/goldendict — Issue #70: show longest match in scan popup / lookup from clipboard
Author: simonwiles
Created: 2012-01-09 00:41:10+00:00
State: open

With ideographic languages (i.e. Chinese), if l select a group of characters to lookup, I need GoldenDict to show me the longest possible match available. As an example, perhaps I am reading "中文字", which means "Chinese character", or "Chinese writing". This three-character compound is not in my dictionary, but when I select all three characters, I would like to see the entry for "中文", "Chinese (language)". The point is that I usually don't know whether a cluster of characters is a phrase which has it's own entry, or whether I have to figure the meaning out from the meanings of the constituents myself.

The behaviour I'm describing is the was the pop-up works on StarDict, and is the only reason why I use StarDict all day every day, and only rarely start GoldenDict. GoldenDict is superior in pretty much every respect, but this is a key part of the way I work, and so it's a deal-breaker for me.

Thanks for the consideration.