add support for the Stardict format as output format

[humenda]

Stardict is a widely used format and is hence worth supporting. There's also a
mobile client QDict available which understands this format. Since we don't have a client, it'd be great to make our dictionaries available this way.

[bansp]

Not a bad idea. Have they published their schema and documentation?
I recall investigating one such case across user forums, with zero effect. But I can't recall now if it was StarDict or some other platform. :-)

[humenda]

Is the stardict not the same across the platforms? I won't be able to have a
look ATM, but I'm sure that it's possible to figure out how this format works.

There are enough open source implementations available.

Web: http://www.crustulus.de (English|Deutsch) | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/blog
FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionaries - http://www.freedict.org
Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html

[humenda]

The XDXF project seems to have an easy method to support Stardict with the dictd format as intermediate:

"to convert from dictd format to stardict: makedict -o stardict file.index"

[bansp]

Let's fork it, then, if it's forkable. I can imagine that it may need tweaking on both sides.

[humenda]

I wouldn't fork it, rather work with them, wherever possible. I'll talk to them at some point.

[bansp]

I meant being able to adjust the code to match our potential modifications, and then pushing into their master. And well, yes, publishing from our own repo, just to make sure that these changes are in. But it's just thinking aloud.

[karlb]

Moved to freedict/tools#5.