Created attachment 5049 Xfce4-dict The Xfce4 Dictionary does not properly handle a Format Code \ .......... \. This code is placed around the text and Xfce4 Dictionary highlight this text with a italics and green colour. But at the time when this Formatting code no places on the first line then Formatting Text displayed not properly. As a demonstration of this error can be a dictionary under the title "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48", which is on the server dict://dict.org, (or package called dict-gcide). Enter the phrase: "Aaronic". We see on the screen shot (see Attachment) that the word \Aa*ron"ic*al\ is not highlighted and we see two Formatting code - "\" (back slash).
I have tried to fix this in http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-dict/commit/?id=4f1d429e9ca3a64e721018a71843cfd65fa2d07b. Hopefully this doesn't break anything, but tests with a few terms haven't turned up anything weird.