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AlPe · 11-26-2015, 10:53 AM

Hi,

I understand the frustration. The problem is the lack of official support for custom dictionaries. I tried to contact Kobo developers several times over the last 2+ years, without any result. (Same story for Bookeen, BTW.) When people send me emails asking for help with Kobo dictionaries, I help them if I can, but I also tell them to send a complaint email to Kobo customer service, asking for the feature to be implemented or at least publishing official documentation.

Back to your issue: I cannot exclude it is a problem with your full dictionary (either the input file, or the output of Penelope), albeit I doubt this is the problem. It seems something went wrong when you copied the full dictionary over the test (2 words) dictionary. Perhaps the words index file has not been replaced properly or at all.

You might want to try the following two procedures:

PROC 1

1. Remove/deselect all dictionaries in the Settings, and delete them from the .kobo/dict directory
2. Reboot your Kobo
3. Copy again the TEST (two words) dictionary
4. Open your eBook, and check if the word lookup works, as it did the first time you tried it

If not, then something really bad happened... reset your Kobo maybe?

If it worked, do the following:

PROC 2

1. Remove all dictionaries, as above
2. Reboot, as above
3. Copy the FULL dictionary
4. Open your eBook, and check if the word lookup works, using the SAME word that you used in the test with the 2 word dictionary

If this does work, good. If it does not work, then it might be an issue with your full dictionary file.

11-26-2015, 10:53 AM	#155
AlPe Digital Amanuensis Posts: 727 Karma: 1446357 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Turin, Italy Device: Several eReaders and tablets	Hi, I understand the frustration. The problem is the lack of official support for custom dictionaries. I tried to contact Kobo developers several times over the last 2+ years, without any result. (Same story for Bookeen, BTW.) When people send me emails asking for help with Kobo dictionaries, I help them if I can, but I also tell them to send a complaint email to Kobo customer service, asking for the feature to be implemented or at least publishing official documentation. Back to your issue: I cannot exclude it is a problem with your full dictionary (either the input file, or the output of Penelope), albeit I doubt this is the problem. It seems something went wrong when you copied the full dictionary over the test (2 words) dictionary. Perhaps the words index file has not been replaced properly or at all. You might want to try the following two procedures: PROC 1 1. Remove/deselect all dictionaries in the Settings, and delete them from the .kobo/dict directory 2. Reboot your Kobo 3. Copy again the TEST (two words) dictionary 4. Open your eBook, and check if the word lookup works, as it did the first time you tried it If not, then something really bad happened... reset your Kobo maybe? If it worked, do the following: PROC 2 1. Remove all dictionaries, as above 2. Reboot, as above 3. Copy the FULL dictionary 4. Open your eBook, and check if the word lookup works, using the SAME word that you used in the test with the 2 word dictionary If this does work, good. If it does not work, then it might be an issue with your full dictionary file.