Non English Dict
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I am  enjoying the  numerous posts  I found on  CS about  little unix
tools useful to write phlogs. BBS's TEXTLIFE board is a nice place to
find  them. Among these,  dict is  a  must-have,  but I  didn't  find
a  way  to  use  it  with  another  language  than  English. You  can
find  translation  dictionaries, but  you  don't  find, for  example,
French-French dictionary.

So  I  started to  look  for  another tool.  I  already  use the  GUI
GoldenDict, which employs StarDict format dictionaries. You find many
very good  free french  dictionaries in this  format, which  is quite
convenient. But GoldenDict doesn't include  a CLI interface, in spite
of an old issue never solved[1]. You  can find a separate CLI tool in
Ruby[2], but this  is a little too  much for my needs, so  I used the
old  CLI interface  of  StarDict, sdcv.  You just  need  to export  a
STARDICT_DATA_DIR environment variable to indicate the path where you
put your dictionaries.

With Vim,  you have  a plugin[3] to  use these  dictionaries directly
from the editor.

[1] https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues/37
[2] https://github.com/dohliam/gdcl
[3] https://github.com/phongvcao/vim-stardict