The newest improvement in my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary is, that one can now comfortably enter special characters, that one might not have as keys on standard keyboard layouts. Since I use it to learn #mandarin / #chinese and I use US keyboard layout, those special characters are the pīnyīn vowels with diacritics.

This looks as shown in [1].

Currently, the shortcut is `ctrl+i`, "i" for "insert". The special chars can be configured in the config file.

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Just created a new release of my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary [1] packing a massive improvement of usability for non-technical users. The change list can be found in the release notes as well. Most of the improvements are about exposing functionality for creating and editing words via the UI. Actions that previously only could be done by editing text files.

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[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases/tag/v0.6.0

I wrote a little program in GNU #guile for renaming files in the directory of the program[1].

The idea of that script is to remove all special characters and remove diacritics (marks above letters). It is kind of opinionated, because as it is now, it should leave diacritics of Pinyin intact. This is because I learn Mandarin and want diacritics of Pinyin to be kept. But you could very easily adapt the code to not keep those.

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[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/renamer-script

I released 2 new versions[1] (v0.5.0 and v0.5.1) of my #xiaolongdictionary language/vocabulary learning software today, with new features and improvements.

One new feature is, that one can now plot progress and daily training of words for any search result, as well as result of saved search.

Another is the main window status bar.

An accessibility improvement is behavior of tabbing through widgets in the main window.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases

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I added a new data visualization to my language learning tool. As one can see, I am a bit below my goal for words trained per day.[1]

Also I reworked the tag list widget, so that one can (un)select tags and undo that, before confirming changes when bulk editing tags.[2] The tags are now so called check buttons (checkboxes in browser UI speak). I am using their inherent state of being (un)selected.

I'll probably make a new release soon.

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Found a silly bug in my language learning tool, that I introduced in a previous change and release. The bug caused the global search to act like a refining search. Now fixed in release v0.4.2 [1].

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases/tag/v0.4.2

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