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Originally Posted by xxyzz
I guess you mean enable Word Wise on non-English books, right?
It's possible.
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Originally Posted by xxyzz
Word Wise for non-English Kindle books feature is added to the master branch
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Here is my experiment of a book in german (which I can't read):
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Originally Posted by domiten
Thank you for that push! its exactly what I was looking for (well the next level would be having the gloss in another language too  ) |
As explained by
@xxyzz on Github. Can be done! Limited to few languages, and only for some specific Kindle dictionaries. Here is the above experiment with the gloss in french:
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Originally Posted by xxyzz
Kindle supports Chinese definitions for Word Wise. For other languages that would require parsing non-English Wiktionary dump files and probably need to reverse-engineer some columns of the Word Wise klld database. Both are not trivial tasks.
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ACK. Sourcing from Kindle dictionary is far from usable. My experiment won't lead me to read in german anytime soon
Wikitionary is so much richer ...and unfortunately complex.