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Doitsu · 12-01-2011, 03:57 AM

I find it more than annoying that the Kindle firmware lacks some dictionary features that were (and are) present in Mobipocket Reader.
While Mobipocket Reader support a huge number of dictionary lookup languages the Kindle firmware seems to be limited to languages that use the Latin-1 and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, even though the Kindle can display languages that use characters outside of these ranges, e.g. classical Greek or Russian.
I'm wondering whether the Kindle 3.x dictionary lookup mechanism could be hacked in any way to behave in the same way that Mobipocket Reader does.
I'd really appreciate it, if one of the reverse engineering experts on this forum could have a look at the source code to find out how the dictionary lookup works and whether it can be easily hacked to support more languages.
Think of it as a dictionary language jailbreak.

12-01-2011, 03:57 AM	#1
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,745 Karma: 24032915 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	Kindle 3.x dictionary lookup API hack? I find it more than annoying that the Kindle firmware lacks some dictionary features that were (and are) present in Mobipocket Reader. While Mobipocket Reader support a huge number of dictionary lookup languages the Kindle firmware seems to be limited to languages that use the Latin-1 and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, even though the Kindle can display languages that use characters outside of these ranges, e.g. classical Greek or Russian. I'm wondering whether the Kindle 3.x dictionary lookup mechanism could be hacked in any way to behave in the same way that Mobipocket Reader does. I'd really appreciate it, if one of the reverse engineering experts on this forum could have a look at the source code to find out how the dictionary lookup works and whether it can be easily hacked to support more languages. Think of it as a dictionary language jailbreak.