Aura HD French-English dictionary not visible

Nick Payne · 11-15-2015, 03:04 AM

Aura HD running 3.18.0 firmware. When I bring up the dictionary and tap on Language, as well as English I see German-English, Italian-English, Spanish-English, and Portuguese-English. French-English doesn't appear. However, when I plug the reader into my PC and have a look in the .kobo/dict folder, the French-English dictionary file *is* there. A directory listing of the folder shows the following files:

14/08/2015 15:15 1,666,763 dicthtml-es-en.zip
14/08/2015 15:15 3,226,343 dicthtml-pt-en.zip
14/08/2015 15:15 926,221 dicthtml-de-en.zip
14/08/2015 15:15 1,586,132 dicthtml-fr-en.zip
14/08/2015 15:15 1,019,627 dicthtml-it-en.zip
14/08/2015 15:15 7,010,221 dicthtml.zip

How can I get the French-English dictionary to appear in the selection of dictionaries?

p.s. I should mention, the problem only happens when I do a search from the home page and select "Dictionary", or when I select "Dictionary" from the bottom right menu after tapping in the centre of a page while reading a book. If I highlight a word in a book and then tap the language selection in the popup definition, French-English *does* appear as one of the language choices. However, if I want to look up an arbitrary French word that is not on the page I am reading, I can't, because French-English doesn't appear as one of the language choices.

davidfor · 11-15-2015, 05:42 AM

That's working as designed. Or maybe "working as licensed" would better.

The license Kobo has for the French and Dutch dictionaries does not allow them to be searched like this. You can select a word in book and look it up, but you can not enter a word to look up

anacreon · 11-15-2015, 09:48 AM

That is why I went back to 3.15, which as far as I know, is the last F/W that allows French or translations with French from the front page and within the book.

Nick Payne · 11-15-2015, 03:29 PM

Well, as I have no interest in the Portuguese-English dictionary, I got around the problem by copying dicthtml-fr-en.zip to the PC, renaming it to dicthtml-pt-en.zip, and copying the renamed file back over dicthtml-pt-en.zip on the kobo. Now I can do a dictionary search from the home page, pick Portuguese-English as the language, and I actually have the French-English dictionary available for arbitrary translations.

11-15-2015, 03:04 AM	#1
Nick Payne Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 39898 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Canberra, Australia Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kobo Libra H2O	French-English dictionary not visible Aura HD running 3.18.0 firmware. When I bring up the dictionary and tap on Language, as well as English I see German-English, Italian-English, Spanish-English, and Portuguese-English. French-English doesn't appear. However, when I plug the reader into my PC and have a look in the .kobo/dict folder, the French-English dictionary file is there. A directory listing of the folder shows the following files: 14/08/2015 15:15 1,666,763 dicthtml-es-en.zip 14/08/2015 15:15 3,226,343 dicthtml-pt-en.zip 14/08/2015 15:15 926,221 dicthtml-de-en.zip 14/08/2015 15:15 1,586,132 dicthtml-fr-en.zip 14/08/2015 15:15 1,019,627 dicthtml-it-en.zip 14/08/2015 15:15 7,010,221 dicthtml.zip How can I get the French-English dictionary to appear in the selection of dictionaries? p.s. I should mention, the problem only happens when I do a search from the home page and select "Dictionary", or when I select "Dictionary" from the bottom right menu after tapping in the centre of a page while reading a book. If I highlight a word in a book and then tap the language selection in the popup definition, French-English does appear as one of the language choices. However, if I want to look up an arbitrary French word that is not on the page I am reading, I can't, because French-English doesn't appear as one of the language choices. Last edited by Nick Payne; 11-15-2015 at 03:20 AM.

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11-15-2015, 05:42 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	That's working as designed. Or maybe "working as licensed" would better. The license Kobo has for the French and Dutch dictionaries does not allow them to be searched like this. You can select a word in book and look it up, but you can not enter a word to look up

11-15-2015, 09:48 AM	#3
anacreon Guru Posts: 976 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	That is why I went back to 3.15, which as far as I know, is the last F/W that allows French or translations with French from the front page and within the book.

11-15-2015, 03:29 PM	#4
Nick Payne Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 39898 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Canberra, Australia Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kobo Libra H2O	Well, as I have no interest in the Portuguese-English dictionary, I got around the problem by copying dicthtml-fr-en.zip to the PC, renaming it to dicthtml-pt-en.zip, and copying the renamed file back over dicthtml-pt-en.zip on the kobo. Now I can do a dictionary search from the home page, pick Portuguese-English as the language, and I actually have the French-English dictionary available for arbitrary translations.

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