Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-03 Thread Amodelo
Am 02.07.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Steve Litt : > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 > B wrote: > >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do >>> this, I'll just put together a substitution table, >>> convert

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Read
On 02/07/14 18:25, Steve Litt wrote: So then, the question becomes, where does there exist a list of common letters that are, for want of a better word, "ornamented ascii"? Umlauts, Carats, Circles, Grave accents, etc. Are the charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ what you're looking for, o

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 B wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do > > this, I'll just put together a substitution table, > > convert /usr/share/dict/words to words.ascii, line for line, sea

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as > installed, the following symlink: > > /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words > > doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon > installation

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Another thing to remember is that the wordlist is no longer ASCII, Excellent thing at the age of UTF-N. > cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -i "$1" Simplify it: grep -i "$1" /usr/share/dict/words > If you look up ^smor.*rd$, you get nothing

Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as installed, the following symlink: /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon installation. The following command (run as root) fixes