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In my usual selfishness I kept thinking only that the x50's don't have a dictionary while earlier models' dictionaries are "done". I completely forgot that complex scripts and logographic languages are not available on the earlier prs+ firmwares' dictionaries.
So, obvsly, a keyboard input is to do, in order to provide the facility for all models. And a character based one at that, for guessing/deciphering visually, not a latin alphabet, which would be irrelevant.
But a touch option should exist for the later models, at some point.
I may have said above but I'll say again as it hits me: to keep the memory footprint low, a set of indexes can refer to separate files for each field of a definition (character, meaning, pronunciation). Or one can separate sections of a dictionary (not by field but by range) into files. That is, if size is an issue for any reason.
So a "table based" input or a list based one would be the search. Once the user selects a character, then all the indexes can come into play and bring up the fields from any number of sub files of the dictionary.
Now I'll get back to "educating" myself some more.
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