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Originally Posted by VitOne
1) DICTIONARY: I tried to decompress many dictionary from the page http://download.huzheng.org, in particular JP and ITA ones. I decompressed the dicts folder of my NovaPro. For example I now have a folder named "stardict-jmdict-ja-en-2.4.2" that has 5 files inside it (.INDEX, .DZ, .ifo, etc). If I try to use this dictionary (and the other ones that I can see in the dictionary settings) the device will start "Searching" without results (I waited several minutes). I tried to restart the device but it still doesn't work. I have also checked and changed the “Preferred dictionary Setting” in the dict options menu (trying to mark/unmark the dictionaries). Could you please suggest me an install procedure and a dictionary that works? I am looking for Italian and/or Japanese dictionaries. |
Personally, I find that Neoreader, the native reading app on Onyx devices, does not handle Japanese very well. Like many other reading apps, it puts any furigana immediately after each kanji rather than floating them above the kanji. This makes it challenging to look up kanji that have furigana associated with them.
I have also found that the dictionary function does not work well when you select multiple characters/hiragana when reading in the Neoreader app. Perhaps sideloading in specific Japanese fonts might help. Not sure.
Instead of Neoreader, I use Moon+ Reader Pro when reading in Japanese. It handles Japanese the best of any of the reading apps I have tried. The wonderful thing is that it handles furigana correctly.
Moon+ Reader also works well with the ColorDict and GoldenDict dictionary apps. They have a variety of dictionaries which you can install. You can then copy StarDict dictionaries to the dictdata folder which I believe ColorDict uses.
You can also set the dictionary in Moon+ Reader so that it will search other apps on a long press of the dictionary button after selecting a word.
I have Moon+ Reader set up so that a short press on the dictionary button will search the StarDict dictionaries which I have associated with ColorDict. A long press of the dictionary button will cause it to search for the term in one of my Japanese apps.