Thread: Mysterious problem with dictionary-lookup
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Old 02-07-2010, 10:30 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by chlorine View Post
Is there a way to know in which language a mobi book is? Same thing for a dictionary?
I use linux and mobi2mobi allows me to _set_ the language but not to see it, and mobils just lists the tilte and author, AFAIK. Calibre doesn't seem to list language in its metadata either.

I just installed a French dictionary in addition to my English one, and I'd like to inspect how dictionary lookup works with respect to language.
Just run mobi2mobi on the file and it should print the language. I just tested it and it said:
Code:
MOBIHEADER   uniqid: 2574736685
MOBIHEADER      ver: 4
MOBIHEADER  exthflg: 80
MOBIHEADER language: 9 - 9 - 0 - ENGLISH - 
MOBIHEADER xtradata: 0 0x30
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