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Originally Posted by Kindl3
I downloaded the dictionary on my Kindle 3, but I only get square boxes.
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You need to install the font hack that Bassam mentioned.
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Originally Posted by Kindl3
Even though kindle 3 can really view arabic text (even in Right to Left format).
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But only in the Internet Browser.
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Originally Posted by Kindl3
And also, is there a way of making it work as an Arabic to English dictionary?
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You could theoretically reverse the dictionary, however, the Kindle 3 does not support dictionary lookup for non-Latin alphabet based languages.
I.e. you'd probably have to convert the Arabic lookup string to the
Arabic Chat Alphabet or another transliteration system.
If you have a Windows system, you could download the old Mobipocket Reader, which offers dictionary lookup for Arabic and many other languages.
BTW, the quality of the entries in the free dictionary that Bassam used is very poor. For Arabic-English, I'd recommend converting the data file of the Buckwalter Morphological Analyzer, which contains definitions for about 30000 entries.
One such data file can be found
here, unfortunately the Arabic text is encoded in the
Buckwalter transliteration, which is a major PITA. For example,
{iqotiSAdiy~ =
اِقْتِصَادِيّ