From szhorvat at gmail.com  Wed Feb 20 02:45:39 2008
From: szhorvat at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Szabolcs_Horv=C3=A1t?=)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:45:39 +0100
Subject: [Dictionarysearch] Feature request: switch to new tab immediately
Message-ID: <f831b3d60802200245g16e95645i8e0aca958a4c32c9@mail.gmail.com>

DictionarySearch is a very useful extension.  I use it a lot.  There
is only one thing that I would really like to see improved about it:

I keep the "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately"
setting turned on only to be able to work efficiently with
DictionarySearch.  In all other contexts (than using dictionaries) I
find the effect of this setting very annoying.  It would be useful if
DictionarySearch offered a setting to switch to the new tab
immediately, independently of the global Firefox setting (so that I
could keep the global setting turned off, but still enjoy the benefits
of this behaviour when using dictionaries).

From jgratero at gmail.com  Fri Feb 22 14:50:28 2008
From: jgratero at gmail.com (Johnny Graterol Guevara)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:20:28 -0430
Subject: [Dictionarysearch] Adding a string with a request in cyrillic
	characters...
Message-ID: <47BF51B4.3020103@gmail.com>

I'm adding the following string for a request in a Russian-English 
dictionary, from Rambler:

http://www.rambler.ru/dict/scripts/go.cgi?where=en&src=js&query=$

Nevertheless, every single time, my request is returned with nothing but 
gibberish. For example, when I request the meaning of ??????? (slovar, 
dictionary) the search results are ??????????????

Any ideas?

Regards

Johnny

From jgratero at gmail.com  Fri Feb 22 14:53:19 2008
From: jgratero at gmail.com (Johnny Graterol Guevara)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:23:19 -0430
Subject: [Dictionarysearch] Adding a string with a request in cyrillic
	characters (correction)
Message-ID: <47BF525F.2070001@gmail.com>

I'm adding the following string for a request in a Russian-English
dictionary, from Rambler:

http://www.rambler.ru/dict/scripts/go.cgi?where=ruen&src=js&query=$
(sorry, this is the right link)

Nevertheless, every single time, my request is returned with nothing but
gibberish. For example, when I request the meaning of ??????? (slovar,
dictionary) the search results are ??????????????

Any ideas?

Regards

Johnny


From jaap at haitsma.org  Sun Feb 24 22:06:59 2008
From: jaap at haitsma.org (Jaap A. Haitsma)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:06:59 +0100
Subject: [Dictionarysearch] Adding a string with a request in cyrillic
	characters...
In-Reply-To: <47BF51B4.3020103@gmail.com>
References: <47BF51B4.3020103@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8a8adccc0802242206k7423e1cr7e2d09fb1bfde333@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Johnny Graterol Guevara
<jgratero at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm adding the following string for a request in a Russian-English
> dictionary, from Rambler:
>
> http://www.rambler.ru/dict/scripts/go.cgi?where=en&src=js&query=$
>
> Nevertheless, every single time, my request is returned with nothing but
> gibberish. For example, when I request the meaning of ??????? (slovar,
> dictionary) the search results are ??????????????
>
> Any ideas?
>
Yes, problem is the encoding you have to use for search. dictionary
search uses UTF-8 but not all sites support this, and it is not
possible as far as I know to automatically detect which encoding a
site wants.

Jaap
Jaap

From szhorvat at gmail.com  Sun Feb 24 22:21:55 2008
From: szhorvat at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Szabolcs_Horv=C3=A1t?=)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:21:55 +0100
Subject: [Dictionarysearch] Adding a string with a request in cyrillic
	characters...
In-Reply-To: <8a8adccc0802242206k7423e1cr7e2d09fb1bfde333@mail.gmail.com>
References: <47BF51B4.3020103@gmail.com>
	<8a8adccc0802242206k7423e1cr7e2d09fb1bfde333@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f831b3d60802242221j2386cd5evd49a3832c974ad8@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap at haitsma.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Johnny Graterol Guevara
>  <jgratero at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I'm adding the following string for a request in a Russian-English
>  > dictionary, from Rambler:
>  >
>  > http://www.rambler.ru/dict/scripts/go.cgi?where=en&src=js&query=$
>  >
>  > Nevertheless, every single time, my request is returned with nothing but
>  > gibberish. For example, when I request the meaning of ??????? (slovar,
>  > dictionary) the search results are ??????????????
>  >
>  > Any ideas?
>  >
>  Yes, problem is the encoding you have to use for search. dictionary
>  search uses UTF-8 but not all sites support this, and it is not
>  possible as far as I know to automatically detect which encoding a
>  site wants.
>

Would it be possible to add the possiblity to set the encoding
manually for each dictionary site?  For example, Firefox's
"quicksearch bookmarks" (also known as "keyword search") allow simply
appending &mozencoding=value (where value is the name of an encoding)
to the URL to set the encoding.  This solution doesn't even require
creating a user interface.