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Old 07-20-2023, 09:13 AM   #1
Legrumsx
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Device: Kobo Sage
Anyone managed to use converted Apple Dict?

Hi, new joiner here

On iPad/mac/iPhone there are really good built-in dictionaries. I managed to get the dictionaries data from my iPad, then I used pyglossary to convert them to dicthtml-XX.zip and add them to the \.kobo\custom-dict folder
The dictionary is detected, but most of the time it doesn't find the word and when it does, there is no CSS formatting so it's unusable.

Has anyone ever managed to properly convert them to Kobo format?

Later, I saw that KOreader supports Stardict format so I installed it on my device and because I am also using those Apple Dictionaries with GoldenDict on my PC I knew the conversion was successful, even the CSS formatting is like on my iPad.

But here again, after putting the converted dict to \.adds\koreader\data\dict, I see that there is a new entry in the list, but I never got it to display a definition, let alone a properly formatted one.

I managed to install open source dictionaries instead, but they are far inferior, even compared to the stock dictionaries. So I would appreciate some help.

(I can provide the files on demand as there would be probably copyright issues.)

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