Step by step to install new dictionaries in kobo readers. It serves for dictionaries of another languages and install additional dictionaries of languages installed.
Updated post to work with fw v.4.22.15190
Inspired by the contributions of Robik and Pipcat in
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...30#post3311930
You must search dictionaries in kobo format. See in
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ght=dictionary or prepare with Penelope (
https://github.com/pettarin/penelope).
1.- Patch the
libnickel.so.1.0.0 file with the method geek1011 patchs. Download your firmware patches:
https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches/releases
Edit the file
libnickel.so.1.0.0.yalm and enable `Allow searches on Extra dictionaries` patch:
2.- We need a two chars code for each dictionary. If language doesn't exists on Kobo we can use its
ISO-639-1 (Ex: Catalan => ca. Euskera => eu), otherwise we will assign a new fictitious code (Ex: English => e1, e2 . Spanish => s1)
3- Edit
\.kobo\Kobo\Kobo eReader.conf and fill
ExtraLocales=xx in
[ApplicationPreferences] seccion with the two chars code of the dictionaries to install (separate with commas)
ExtraLocales=ca, e1, e2, s1, eu
4.- Copy dictionary files to
\.kobo\dict
You have to name the files with the file structure of kobo dictionaries with the two chars code.
dicthtml-ca.zip, dicthtml-e1.zip, dicthtml-e2.zip, dicthtml-s1.zip, dicthtml-eu-es.zip
5.- From fw 4.22 step 5 is no longer necessary
6.- Safely disconnect the reader and restart.
You have the new dictionaries.
You can use on the book and from the menu dictionary of the home
