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Originally Posted by stehk
since there seem to pop up similar questions about dictionaries quite frequently i decided to write a little faq. maybe it contains some errors, but it might be useful to some people
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Thanks for this excellent FAQ
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Originally Posted by stehk
Q: How does the kindle decide which dictionary to use
A: You can change the primary dictionary under menu -> settings -> menu -> change primary dictionary. This dictionary will be used for every book, with one exception:
Each book has a language-metadata entry. If a book is- say german- and you have a german dictionary on your device it will be used regardless of your dictionary.
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Well, I am still a bit struggling with this, an unable to pinpoint my problem:
- On my Kindle Wi-Fi 3.1 I have loaded several dictionaries and books in different languages.
- My default dictionary is the builtin English American dictionary.
- When I read books in french or english, the expected dictionary is automaticaly invoked. Good.
- When I read books in spanish or german (though I don't realy speak these languages I wanted to test further) only the default english dictionary is invoked. Bad.
I used Mobihandler and Mobi2Mobi to document the language metadata of the books and dictionaries. I think they indeed match:
FRENCH:
Dic:
Book:
SPANISH:
Dic:
Book:
GERMAN:
Dic:
Book:
ENGLISH:
Dic:
Could that be the definition dictionaries are switched to automatically but not the translation ones?
Or additional metadata that I am missing?
Or... a bug in the Kindle software?