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Best dictionary file format to support (& question on Linguee .gindex files) #364

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If you don't mind keeping an internal index file (or in-memory loaded on startup) for lookup, I would suggest something simple like CSV or Tabfile (CSV is simplest).
You can find their document files in: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary/tree/master/doc/p
And their Python codes in: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary/tree/master/pyglossary/plugins

Otherwise (if you want the glossary with an index itself), I would suggest DICT.org / Dictd format.
Even though StarDict format is much more popular, it has a lot of features and it's complicated, and very few programs (probably none except for the official StarDict application) have full support of the format.

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