Aard2 fails to view articles in Gesner Latin dictionary about aard2-android HOT 3 CLOSED

Now, it's quite possible that the dictionary is poorly-formed

it is. Here's the header (retrieved with slob or aard2-web):

         id: 63629b7e9f1940889df4b89c24382f0e
   encoding: utf-8
compression:
 blob count: 58522
  ref count: 223578

compression name is missing

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Hello. It's my dictionary, and it was intentionally stored w/o compression:

import slob
with slob.create(filename, compression="") as slb:
    ...

I think slob library does allow it:

Empty value means bins are not compressed.

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I think slob library does allow it:

Indeed. But Java implementation doesn't support this :)

Using zlib should incur negligible overhead though, even if it doesn't ultimately decrease dictionary size, no reason not to use it. It seems to me that use of TIFF is way more problematic. Dictionary content is typically rendered/viewed with a web browser (desktop or embedded like WebView on Android) and no mainstream browser supports TIFF (other than perhaps Safari?).

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