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Originally Posted by davidfor
I'm not sure if see either the "disaster" or "humongous bug". There are bugs, but they aren't that big.
The first bug I see is that "English-Español (México)" and "Español (México)-English" are listed twice. Kobo have announced a deal with some Mexican book stores, so are adding the Mexican version of Spanish to the interface. It looks like they have messed up the list here and have the Mexican translation twice instead of the two different versions.
The other bug is caused by the licenses for the French and Dutch dictionaries. The license Kobo have for these means they can do a lookup, but not a search. This is unchanged from previous firmware, but the changes to the dictionary search is causing a problem. In the past, you could change it when doing a lookup from the dictionary popup. Now it uses the new search and that doesn't allow these dictionaries.
I'll pass this on to Kobo via the beta list.
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Well, I do think it is a very annoying bug that I can't access the full page French dictionary from a French book, but that it goes to English: a French person prejudice??? Of course it is my problem that I put in the Littré as Nederlands and that Nederlands dictionary isn't accessible either apparently (somebody with Nederlands mother tongue might confirm or infirm this, and whether they are annoyed...).
I do wonder about Kobo's English predominance considering they were originally a Canadian (English/French bilinguals) company, and they gave up US distribution. Also, I had the impression they had a good French client base. I am extremely annoyed that not only do Kobo refuse to pay for an accessible French dictionary, but they prevent me from accessing a public domain dictionary like Littré, or buying a decent modern one.
I'm on my 5th kobo, but I do wish they had the equivalent to what I've read about Kindle dictionaries. Lucky them I refuse to enter the Amazon system and I know no other satisfying reader. I miss the Sony dictionaries, but they gave up too and my eyes can't tolerate the PRS-T2 low definition anymore.