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Ceiyne · 01-29-2021, 04:50 PM

I've had a custom Japanese-English dictionary on my Kobo forever. It still works fine, but it was originally based a ~5 year old copy of Edict (from when the dictionary was made), so I wanted to update it to a newer version, and switch to JMdict.

I converted the latest JMdict to Kobo format using Pyglossary. The resulting file worked to some extent on my Kobo, but there was something wrong with it -- I could look up some words, but it would fail to find anything for other words. The words it didn't find were common words, so they should have been there, and I confirmed that they were in the original JMdict file I used.

I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if there is a bug in Pyglossary causing the issue. I thought I'd ask around here first to see if anyone had already done what I'm trying to do, before I submit an issue to the Pyglossary folks.

I'm also not locked into the idea of using JMdict if there's a better JE dictionary for Kobo floating around out there.

01-29-2021, 04:50 PM	#1
Ceiyne Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 24602 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD	JMdict on Kobo (or any other recommended Japanese dictionaries?) I've had a custom Japanese-English dictionary on my Kobo forever. It still works fine, but it was originally based a ~5 year old copy of Edict (from when the dictionary was made), so I wanted to update it to a newer version, and switch to JMdict. I converted the latest JMdict to Kobo format using Pyglossary. The resulting file worked to some extent on my Kobo, but there was something wrong with it -- I could look up some words, but it would fail to find anything for other words. The words it didn't find were common words, so they should have been there, and I confirmed that they were in the original JMdict file I used. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if there is a bug in Pyglossary causing the issue. I thought I'd ask around here first to see if anyone had already done what I'm trying to do, before I submit an issue to the Pyglossary folks. I'm also not locked into the idea of using JMdict if there's a better JE dictionary for Kobo floating around out there.