I have a Kindle 3.3 and I don't have any of these problems that you encountered. If I look up a word, the Kindle always chooses the dictionary based on the language of the ebook. The only thing I don't like about it is that it will only display the first match.
If dictionary lookup is very important to you, you might want to consider getting a used K3 Wifi until Amazon fixes the K4 Touch firmware problems.
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Originally Posted by Stingo
The problem may be how the dictionaries are encoded. I have the Barrons German and MW Spanish dictionaries. Under Dictionary settings they both show up under English dictionaries.
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Just to be on the safe side, you might want to make sure that the dictionaries are properly encoded. The easiest way to do this is opening them with
Mobipocket Reader. To do this, simply copy your dictionaries and some ebooks into the Mobipocket Reader's
My eBooks folder and then try to look up a word.
If the dictionaries work, you should get a dictionary popup window showing the name of the dictionary and two flags indicating the dictionary languages.
If you get two identical flags, the dictionaries are not properly encoded and the only way to fix this is to change the dictionary input and output languages in the source code and to re-compile the dictionary.
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Unfortunately if you remove DRM from the dictionaries and re-encode to their respective language, the Kindle does not see them as dictionaries any longer.
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Theoretically, you shouldn't have to change the language code of a commercial dictionary. BTW, how did you change the language code?