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Dict: "Usually kana" flag hides variety in writing forms
Original report by me.
Entries with "usually kana" flag in EDICT are displayed by Wakan dictionary as "kana/kana" instead of "kana/kanji". Kana is displayed in both columns and kanji is completely absent, to indicate that this word is written with kana and kanji is only supplementary.
That is fine and good, but sometimes we still want to know the kanji. There's currently no way for that. And sometimes a word has a bunch of ways to write it, all supplementary. In that case it is matched several times, but due to "usually kana" flag all results look the same: "kana/kana".
Probably going to fix this while doing Issue 93: such entries would have multiple writings listed, with kana going first and in normal font, and kanji on the following lines, in the bleak/light gray font.
This is additionally good since all versions of the writing may be grouped together through Issue 93.