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Old 04-28-2012, 07:14 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Bassam Jarad View Post
I've installed that font on the Kindle and voila ... I’ve got a dictionary that shows Arabic letters.
Great job!

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Hopefully, I'll keep on searching for a solution to force the Kindle to show the letters of the words meanings in the reverse order (RTL) and to find a solution to connect letters together. I'm not sure how hard that would be... hopefully some of you guy could share any ideas or thoughts about this.
Unfortunately, there's hardly any K3 development going on and I haven't heard of any active K2 projects.
IIRC, some K2 models can be hacked to use a special version of the K3 firmware, which might enable you to install Launchpad and fbKindle, which will allow you to read Arabic ePubs. Unfortunately, fbKindle doesn't have any dictionary support and none of the most experienced developers is interested in porting StarDict or another dictionary software to the Kindle platform.

As for your dictionary, I'd simply write a macro/script that looks for multi-word Arabic definitions and reverses the order. I.e., it'd re-write the words in LTR order.

You may also want to upload your dictionary to the MR Patricia Clark library (make sure to read the posting guidlines and select Reference as the prefix).
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