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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
On the K3, at least, that isn't true. If the language code is set appropriately in the book and the dictionary, it just works. Don't know about the Touch.
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They still aren't included; you have to buy them and they have to be available; most available coded dictionaries in other languages are by Merriam-Webster, lack certain basic information and prove perfunctory. And even if you buy dictionaries or content yourself with (in my experience) atrociously edited Gutenberg foreign language dictionaries with reasonably correct coding, a lot of word forms just aren't recognized. Not a problem with the Sonys.
Also: From my understanding, even on the Touch, you can't set a dictionary as the default which isn't one of the included dictionaries unless you're willing to do a little work. An actual Touch user could tell us, as well as the names of the included dictionaries in the new firmware and how well they work.
See
this thread for complaints about foreign language dictionaries on the Touch and Kindles generally. People on that thread got their dictionaries to work using Calibre, so that might be an option for a user who's willing to go beyond simply using the online store.