Investigate signature display on Kobo 4.24.15676

[BoboTiG]

See #142 for some details. I need to upgrade to Kobo 4.24.15676 and check what can be done to get back a normal behavior.

The current behavior is that if the Zip is copied into .kobo/dict it will display both signatures:

Wiktionnaire (c) 2020
Le Robert Micro (C) 2013 Dictionnaires Le Robert

But it works correctly when copied into .kobo/custom-dict. However, the orginal dictionary (Le Robert) is used by default and it is not convenient to select the Wiktionary dict every time.

[lasconic]

This is also promising no ? pgaskin/dictutil#14 (comment)

A custom credit line can be added to the bottom of all entries in the dictionary (newline then the text in italics) by setting it as the zip global archive comment.

[lasconic]

I just tested and it works for both dict/customdict and both for the in-book dictionary and the search. I'm running 4.24.15676.
I removed the hack from and the source line from "WORD_FORMAT" and added the zipfile comment.

What's your policy in term of firmware support?

[lasconic]

For reference: see PR #193
Interestingly the French dictionary looses ~200kB.

[BoboTiG]

Indeed, that's exactly what I was thinking for the fix. And getting rid of the hack is soo attractive :)

I have no policy , mostly because I have no numbers (which firmware versions are in use?). But I think losing the signature on old ones is not an issue.

I have a similar dilemma with #54 but maybe can we generate 2 dictionaries (one for < 4.24 and for for >= 4.24).