Comment 5 for bug 1072316

Dmitry, you could try to build GoldenDict from the upstream sources, it is as easy as invoking a couple of commands:
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict#installing-external-deps-on-ubuntu-linux

The bug has been fixed some time this year, so it is not present in the quite outdated version 1.0.2~git20120929-3.