Korean -> English dictionary

[cake001]

First of all hi, I've lurked hard but this is too complicated for me.

Second, I have scoured the internet on how to get this dictionary thing to work but it won't. Either it freezes the kindle for a while or the highlighted word pop's up with ... (then random words) not the definition.

I have the tab2opf.exe the mobigen.exe. I even tried a python script I found

So I tried this from this site though googlefu and that fixed the hmtl gibberish problem

python tab2opf.py -utf mytabfile.txt

But not this? Warning(prcgen): encountered an empty "idx:key" tag.
So I'm at a complete loss now and my head is fried.

Can anyone help me with this?
html looks like this now

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by cake001

First of all hi, I've lurked hard but this is too complicated for me.

Second, I have scoured the internet on how to get this dictionary thing to work but it won't. Either it freezes the kindle for a while or the highlighted word pop's up with ... (then random words) not the definition.

I have the tab2opf.exe the mobigen.exe. I even tried a python script I found

So I tried this from this site though googlefu and that fixed the hmtl gibberish problem

python tab2opf.py -utf mytabfile.txt

But not this? Warning(prcgen): encountered an empty "idx:key" tag.
So I'm at a complete loss now and my head is fried.

Can anyone help me with this?
html looks like this now

The script generated no keys. I've added them with a txt editor in the html files

Check both of them

[cake001]

Thank you! But...maybe this xmas kindle of mine is defective. Because it freezes up completely as well.

Also what do you mean by keys?

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Owl_

The script generated no keys. I've added them with a txt editor in the html files

Check both of them

Would you mind sharing the files you fed into mobigen to produce those? There is something about the resulting files that kindleunpack doesn’t like and I am curious what it might be.

[cake001]

This is attempt xxxxx with python+penelope which is the closest I've gotten. But the kindle still freezes for a good while before actually popping up with text. It doesn't pull the word like a normal text.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Would you mind sharing the files you fed into mobigen to produce those? There is something about the resulting files that kindleunpack doesn’t like and I am curious what it might be.

here they are

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by cake001

Also what do you mean by keys?

Before

<mbp:pagebreak/>
<idx:entry name="word" scriptable="yes">
<b>
<idx:orth>분유</idx:orth><idx:key key="">
</b></font>
분유 [粉乳] powdered[dry / dried] milk.ㆍ 탈지 ∼ nonfat dry milk.

After

<mbp:pagebreak/>
<idx:entry name="word" scriptable="yes">
<b>
<idx:orth>분유</idx:orth><idx:key key="분유">
</b></font>
분유 [粉乳] powdered[dry / dried] milk.ㆍ 탈지 ∼ nonfat dry milk.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Owl_

here they are

Thanks for that.

I am still looking into the original problem, but one thing I noticed wrong with those files is that "<" and ">" characters in definitions are not being escaped, leading to text being treated as HTML tags. For example:

welcome / make <a person> welcome / receive <a person> with delight.


Added: Actually I did find the problem and it is related to the above issue. In the entry that is failing the closing tag (</idx:entry>) is being lost because the definition is truncated in the middle of text with unescaped characters:

<idx:entry name="word" scriptable="yes">
<b>
<idx:orth>맞다</idx:orth><idx:key key="맞다">
</b></font>
맞다11 [영접하다] meet; go (out) to meet; receive; greet.ㆍ 반가이 ∼ welcome / make <a person> welcome / receive <a person> with delight.ㆍ 따뜻이 ∼ give <a person> a warm reception.ㆍ... (셈을 마치고) All right!2 [적합하다] suit <one's taste>; answer[serve] <the p
</idx:entry>

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Thanks for that.

I am still looking into the original problem, but one thing I noticed wrong with those files is that "<" and ">" characters in definitions are not being escaped, leading to text being treated as HTML tags. For example:

welcome / make <a person> welcome / receive <a person> with delight.


Added: Actually I did find the problem and it is related to the above issue. In the entry that is failing the closing tag (</idx:entry>) is being lost because the definition is truncated in the middle of text with unescaped characters:

<idx:entry name="word" scriptable="yes">
<b>
<idx:orth>맞다</idx:orth><idx:key key="맞다">
</b></font>
맞다11 [영접하다] meet; go (out) to meet; receive; greet.ㆍ 반가이 ∼ welcome / make <a person> welcome / receive <a person> with delight.ㆍ 따뜻이 ∼ give <a person> a warm reception.ㆍ... (셈을 마치고) All right!2 [적합하다] suit <one's taste>; answer[serve] <the p
</idx:entry>

I will give it a try

[cake001]

Both of you and that key is over my head.

[Owl_]

Your dictionary is under my feet

[cake001]

Originally Posted by Owl_

Your dictionary is under my feet

Omg thank you. It takes a little bit for the kindle to process it but it works!
How do you do that key insert thing? for future reference? I have no experience with that stuff.

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by cake001

Omg thank you. It takes a little bit for the kindle to process it but it works!
How do you do that key insert thing? for future reference? I have no experience with that stuff.

Using Notepad++ or Emeditor. I did the replace in the html with the "regex" = regular expressions, that allowed me to do the things listed over your head

[cake001]

Is...there a for dummies version?

[PoP]

Originally Posted by jhowell

...Actually I did find the problem and it is related to the above issue. In the entry that is failing the closing tag (</idx:entry>) is being lost because the definition is truncated in the middle of text with unescaped characters...

Originally Posted by Owl_

Your dictionary is under my feet

Insightful. Thanks both of you.