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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• [ ] 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

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...

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.