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Originally Posted by GlassX
Thanks Fethry, but the first two links don't work. Can you tell me what I should download from the third link?
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Not sure if I follow you. But anyway, the main link is:
http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
And from there, it spread out to a bunch of different repositories.
At the moment, it will fail for most languages because of the faulty character encoding. There has recently been some changes of the dictionary function in Duokan, which does not make it look any nice. ( how it render text within the window. If it would take some html coding, then a lot more possible dictionaries,encyclopedia, etc. -could be used. I have attached a zip file that I hope will unpack correctly: copy to your computer, unzip it. These files can then be copied into the DK_System/system/dic folder.
Each dictionary consist of 3 files: "dict.ifo", "dict.dict", "dict.idx" and the supplied archive has these dictionaries:
quick_acronym
quick_Answers
quick_British_Business_terms
quick_foldoc
quick_iso-3166
quick_iso-639
quick_Jargon_File
quick_plz.us
quick_RFC_Index
quick_uk-us
quick_us-uk
If you go to dictionary setup ( menu->dictionary, while in home catalog, or at the bottom of the dictionary panel ), then you can move the dictionary you want up to the top of the list. ( notice that you use the page forward, if there are more pages for the word. By arranging the dictionaries, you may have several languages, - say the topmost dictionary is english-english, the next is english-spanish, then the info from the last one is added to it. ( you need to page-forward, or move what you want first to be shown, to the top of the list )
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More details:
This supplied archive may not be very useful. However, it was not possible to attach some of the larger examples, as they may be large in size. Here is some dictionary files:
http://yeelou.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/
If you download any of these, then the dictionary has been compressed with a "dictzip" (.dz) and I ran into a lot of trouble as many programs I tried from the web, did not unpack them correctly. As explained - most are too large to upload, example: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) - else, I would have done it. Several of the others may use more html-code, which make them less attractive at the moment. I have used several from other languages, but at the moment they don't work any good, due to the non-compatible unicode problem with Duokan.
So, the only changes I have made in the supplied example, is that I have unzipped the compressed "dict.dict.dz".
happy look-ups !
