How to create your own mobipocket dictionary for any language:

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by bugmenot

does anyone have a TR 2 TR dictionary handling turkish inflections?

IIRC, Turkish MR user thomass was at one point working on a Turkish dictionary. Why don't you PM him?

[sevenkul]

Originally Posted by bugmenot

does anyone have a TR 2 TR dictionary handling turkish inflections?

I have worked on Turkish inflections but only on the inflections that appear in Risale-i Nur. If you need inflections of modern Turkish, you can extract them from a Turkish to English Babylon dictionary by using the tool provided by alon but note that there are (not much but) some errors in the inflections of the Babylon dictionary. If what you need is the Ottoman inflections, I published my work in this blog, you can download a very large and rigorous Ottoman Turkish database.

By using that database, I generated an Ottoman Turkish dictionary, you can see the attachment. I hope ottoman characters appear well on all devices.

By the way, I also wrote a C# application that retrieve data from MSSQL database and generate XML file (which contains <idx:..> kind of tags) to be used in generating Kindle dictionaries. If someone doesn't like python, he can try this C# application. Currently, the application works only on my Ottoman dictionary case. I provide the source code so that you can adapt it to any project. The very needed tutorial, syntax and examples for writing a dictionary is here and at Kindle Publishing Guidelines.pdf.

[mijd]

Hi.
I have a text file with a list of all words allowed in french Scrabble (see attached file). I followed your trick to generate output files for building the dictionary but it failed. Maybe because the text file dose not contain any tab. It's a file with one word per line. no defenition.
Please I need hepl. What can I do to convert it into a valid text file and cread a mobipocket compotible dictionary for my Nokia N97 ?

Thank you in advance !

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by mijd

What can I do to convert it into a valid text file and create a mobipocket compatible dictionary for my Nokia N97![/B]

Tab2Opf requires a tab delimited word-list and Python 2.7.

[mijd]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Tab2Opf requires a tab delimited word-list, I quickly duplicated yours and added tabs. Try using my version.

Thank you for the conversion. But I still have an error reported. The script stop immediatly with the following message error :

C:\Python31>tab2opf.py ods6.txt
File "C:\Python31\tab2opf.py", line 199
print "tab2opf (Stardict->MobiPocket)"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

C:\Python31>_

I do make a mistake somewhere. Even the comand line instructions are easy to execute, I'm sure I miss something important

[EbokJunkie]

mijd
Just try to downgrade Python version: 2.7 should work.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by EbokJunkie

mijd
Just try to downgrade Python version: 2.7 should work.

You're right, this script requires Python 2.7. Since the OP has the wrong version installed, I compiled a dictionary for him.

[mijd]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

You're right, this script requires Python 2.7. Since the OP has the wrong version installed, I compiled a dictionary for him.

Yes got it !!!
It works. Thank you all for your help.

Now playing Scrabble will be more fun

[bubblepop]

phuu! I can't get this thing compiled! I've spent hours trying to compile a Korean-English dictionary for the kindle paperwhite.. I'm getting wired feedback from the tab2opf thing:
"
feff

1

1
"

and the mobi file doesn't work when trying a look-up...


Could someone have a look at this, maybe even compile it for me please?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwz...it?usp=sharing

I would be so thankful for this!

Regards,
bubblepop

[EbokJunkie]

@artbatista
USAGE: tab2opf.py -utf dict_name.txt

[Phionz]

This is wonderful! I hope you can built it more... thank you very much for sharing.

[bubblepop]

Can someone help me compile a Korean-English dictionary for the Paperwhite?

I've successfully compiled a Japanese-German Dictionary - Japanisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch (Wadoku - year unkown: http://ge.tt/6lld6jj1?c )

But when trying with Korean the idx:key is all messed up. Without those keys the Paperwhite can't do a proper look-up it seems..

Here is a tab separated Korean-English dictionary: http://ge.tt/6lld6jj1/v/0?c

Can someone help me get those idx:key repaired?

[sp313]

Originally Posted by bubblepop

Can someone help me compile a Korean-English dictionary for the Paperwhite?

I've successfully compiled a Japanese-German Dictionary - Japanisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch (Wadoku - year unkown: http://ge.tt/6lld6jj1?c )

But when trying with Korean the idx:key is all messed up. Without those keys the Paperwhite can't do a proper look-up it seems..

Here is a tab separated Korean-English dictionary: http://ge.tt/6lld6jj1/v/0?c

Can someone help me get those idx:key repaired?

Bumping the thread because I have the same exact problem as bubblepop there. Other dictionaries work, Korean ones don't - and i've tried several. Mobigen (and Kindlegen) complain that they "encountered an empty idx:key tag" all the time and the final dictionary is not usable.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[eschwartz]

I think you will need custom korean character mapping. It might help if you had a unicode-encoded tab-separated dictionary.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by sp313

Other dictionaries work, Korean ones don't - and i've tried several. Mobigen (and Kindlegen) complain that they "encountered an empty idx:key tag" all the time and the final dictionary is not usable.

There appears to be a bug in tab2opf.py that adds empty idx:key tags, but even if you remove them and compile the dictionary with Mobipocket Creator or Kindlegen, it won't work with eInk Kindles.
Since the dictionary does work with Mobipocket Reader, Amazon most likely introduced a Koran dictionary bug in the Paperwhite firmware.
Please find attached the source files and the converted dictionary, which does not work with Kindles. (It displays the same random word no matter which word you look up.)

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I think you will need custom korean character mapping.

Thanks to the code2000.ttf font, Kindles and Kindle apps support pretty much any alphabet included in the Unicode 5.2 standard standard. There's no character mapping required unless the source files are non-Unicode files.