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Another thing that makes more sense after #1

• Commedia sexy all'italiana, as charming as it sounds, is not a movie title
• Neither is "Martial arts film". Maybe the lower-case initials are the giveaway?
• There are lots of "Studios" in the database which aren't movies
• And the "Proletarian Film League of Japan" (wat), and the "Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year"
• Something bad happened to the Chinese names of "Bee Movie"
• The HK/TW translations for "Jobs" are missing, even though they're on the Wikipedia page: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/乔布斯_(电影)
• Likewise, the Chinese translations for "Shutter Island" are broken
• "(documentary)" should be stripped
• "Red Eye" is in the list twice, are there really two movies from the same year? -> Check Wikipedia

Not sure if it only happens on iOS 5, but it doesn't happen on iOS 8 and 9. Will probably be fixed by #1.

When a movie has translations for the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the "Chinese" title should be dropped.

Instead of downloading the full Wikipedia dump, extracting it, then running a ragel script over the XML file, can we just do it all in memory? Pseudocode: curl -s http://dumps.wikimedia.org/.../enwiki-20170220-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 | bzcat | ./extract-movies enwiki?

Rationale: Having 100 GB of free space is a rare occurence for me.

I'd love to add support for Arabic, just for the Right-to-Left layout lulz. Suggestions are also welcome.

Video games would be fun too, but mostly in East Asia.

If I could somehow turn this into a dictionary for all the stuff that is not included in "normal" dictionaries, this app might actually have a target audience of more than five people...

I don't like having third-party code in my repository, and I'd love to use CocoaPods to embed FMDB and SQLite.

However, I have no idea if that will let me use the unicode61 tokeniser, or if I should be using the new FTS5 API in SQLite instead, or if I can actually have both—the latest API and delicious CocoaPods.

At the very least, the website should link to the GitHub page and README.md should link to the app on the App Store.

I actually use this app a lot on my iPad, but I am not sure if it makes sense to build this before #1 is done.

I'm also not entirely sure what the best UI would be.

Might be worth a manual stringByReplacing... :(

When changing from single-column view to splitscreen view, the search result should stay selected in the left column.

There are lots of regular expressions in the Database scripts that decide which Wikipedia pages are about movies, and what's crap along the lines of "List of Italian splatter porn actors of the 90s".

These blacklists and whitelists should probably be moved to configuration files or constants, for easier editing.

From Train to Busan:

|中國大陸片名    = 釜山行
|香港片名    = 屍殺列車
|新馬片名    = Train to Busan
|台灣片名    = 屍速列車

Not really an enhancement per se, but the layout code in MovieViewController is very inefficient.

MovieDict deploys down to iOS 5.1.1 because that's the lowest target version you can use on the App Store (for now) and in Xcode 7.

When Xcode 8 hits the App Store and only supports targeting iOS 8.0+, this app would make a nice testbed for some newer APIs.

I am not sure if the JavaScript-based API even works anymore?

Even when it did, the screenshots needed manual fixing (there's a double caret somewhere, and the IME overlay is offset by 8px).

It's a mess, but it doesn't really matter.

Many movies use a proper apostrophe (’) in one language and ASCII ' in another, leading to this mess:

This should be fixed by ignoring punctuation in almost_equal (in Database/Rakefile). Maybe "The" should be ignored here, too? I don't think adding or removing a "The" counts as a translation.

The app is so simple that I doubt many people have trouble using it, but this would be a fun project to test a localisation service - https://www.elloco.com/pricing is still on my list.

https://linktosheets.com/extract-data-from-wikipedia-wikidata/
https://rubygems.org/gems/wik
http://wiki.dbpedia.org