PRS-650 Access to the Dictionary files - Page 3

igorsk · 04-06-2011, 11:16 PM

Here's what I managed to discover. I'll post some more comments later, for now try dumping some dictionaries and look into the source code.

Papi · 04-07-2011, 03:00 AM

igorsk : thanks a lot for sharing what you discovered. I just took a quick look, tried dumping a pre-installed dictionary and a home made one. I saw the pre-installed dictionary is indeed encoded in unicode and the "home-made" with BBeB Dict Studio is encoded in Shift JIS (I thought BBeB Dict Studio managed Shift JIS encoding for the input CSV, but converted in UNICODE....but apparently that's not the case).

It seems you went far in understanding MSD format (how did you achieve that ?), so is your goal, as porkupan said to "only" correct the failing indexing of BBeB Dict Studio, or is it to make a complete MSD builder ?
OK, I'll take a deeper look at bbeb_dic.py now.

igorsk · 04-07-2011, 05:15 AM

Actually, Sjis dictionaries are still supported (check Oxford dictionary for example). The main difference from Librie dictionaries is the extra indexing streams. They are not produced by the BBeB Studio. I started making code to add them but didn't have time to finish.

mugger · 05-23-2011, 11:59 AM

Papi, igorsk!
do you have any news about Dictionary?

Domas · 11-19-2011, 10:49 AM

It seems that the same dictionary format is used in PRS-T1.

Igorsk, did you find any time to improve your bbeb_dict to extract dictionary content?

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04-07-2011, 03:00 AM	#32
Papi Addict Posts: 311 Karma: 547600 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Paris Device: Kindle Keyboard, Kindle NT, PRS-650	igorsk : thanks a lot for sharing what you discovered. I just took a quick look, tried dumping a pre-installed dictionary and a home made one. I saw the pre-installed dictionary is indeed encoded in unicode and the "home-made" with BBeB Dict Studio is encoded in Shift JIS (I thought BBeB Dict Studio managed Shift JIS encoding for the input CSV, but converted in UNICODE....but apparently that's not the case). It seems you went far in understanding MSD format (how did you achieve that ?), so is your goal, as porkupan said to "only" correct the failing indexing of BBeB Dict Studio, or is it to make a complete MSD builder ? OK, I'll take a deeper look at bbeb_dic.py now.

04-07-2011, 05:15 AM	#33
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	Actually, Sjis dictionaries are still supported (check Oxford dictionary for example). The main difference from Librie dictionaries is the extra indexing streams. They are not produced by the BBeB Studio. I started making code to add them but didn't have time to finish.

05-23-2011, 11:59 AM	#34
mugger Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: prs-950	Papi, igorsk! do you have any news about Dictionary?

11-19-2011, 10:49 AM	#35
Domas Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 493302 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London, United Kingdom Device: Sony T1, Sony PRS-505, Elonex (EB600E), Cool-er (EB600EM), Hanvon N516	It seems that the same dictionary format is used in PRS-T1. Igorsk, did you find any time to improve your bbeb_dict to extract dictionary content?

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