Tolino e-readers use version 6 of
Reimar Döffinger’s (mainly Wiktionary-based) dictionaries (see
Dictionary,
DictionaryPC,
Download), using the
.quickdic format. There’s also a nice
Android app.
Unfortunately, there’s only
sparse documentation, and Wiktionary coding has
changed heavily over the past years, resulting in
nearly unusable pre-made dictionaries (especially the single-language "look-up" dictionaries). These now contain pages over pages of badly-formatted Wiktionary code instead of readable content. (See attached screenshots in my
issue.)
The "usual" ways to self-create dictionaries fail, for example creating text-based files from Wiktionary XML dumps and converting these using software like
pyglossary. I don’t speak Java, so I can’t modify the code myself.
I have already created tab-separated text files using a
Rexx script by user "tscho" on the E-Reader Forums, then tried to convert these into a "single-language" lookup-dictionary using rdoeffinger’s tools, but to no avail. It is currently not supported. (See my
issue regarding that.)
Mr. Döffinger told me he could give more priority to that, in case "a community existed" and "people would be willing to collaborate".
To all that wish for better Tolino dictionaries: Please participate in the discussions below and—if anyhow possible—help out and collaborate! THANK YOU!