Default location of the dictionaries broken on OS/2 and Windows

[dryeo]

Without QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH set in the environment, Dooble tries to load the bdic files from root. See image for OS/2

And for Windows, https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3275.0;attach=13925;image

This probably a directory separator issue as it works as expected under Linux and the backslash is often treated as an escape character.

Testing older builds, 2023.12.25 works as expected,
2024.01.25 gives this message, "The directory qtwebengine_dictionaries cannot be accessed. Please read Source/dooble_settings.cc, line 2285."
2024.11.23 gives, "The directory qtwebengine_dictionaries cannot be accessed. Dooble searched W:/\qtwebengine_dictionaries. Please read Source/dooble_settings, line 2363."
2025.11.25 gives the "Warning \en_CA.bdic cannot be accessed!"

Note, OS/2 is pretty agnostic about the directory separator though backslash is the official one. I see that Dooble is using W:/Home.dooble for its profile successfully.
Not sure about Windows though it also seems to handle mixed directory separators.

[dryeo]

I see github ate the backslash in W:/Home\.dooble so escaping \ with double backslash

[textbrowser]

Dooble uses QDir::separator().

[textbrowser]

The current-path of the executable (Dooble) is applied if the mentioned environment variable is not defined.

[textbrowser]

I'll see about adding the files into the application.

[textbrowser]

Too much work. MacOS, Windows, Linux, OS/2. You need to set the path somewhere.

[textbrowser]

The dictionaries are created by another process during the build. Not all work if created on one system for other systems.

[dryeo]

On 12/24/25 01:11 PM, textbrowser wrote: Too much work. MacOS, Windows, Linux, OS/2. You need to set the path somewhere.

That's understandable and we do have the environment variable to locate the dictionaries. I'll think on a script similar to dooble.sh

[dryeo]

Interesting that the dictionaries are system dependent. Unluckily here the dictionaries stopped being built when you moved the dictionaries to their own repository. I can set DOOBLE_DICTIONARIES_DIRECTORY to the absolute Dictionaries directory and the warning goes away but the dictionaries do not show up in build/

[textbrowser]

Too much content in the dictionaries.