In all of hpc, is there a stardict dictionary viewer?

I have this old stardict format (3 files DICT, IFO, IDX) OED dictionary. It's huge and includes emtymologyical info and historical info. I keep an old hacked kindle running Koreader just for this valueable reference. I think it is UTF-8 as Greek, IPA, letters from old English, vowels with acute, grave, circumflex accents all appear fine on the Koreader/Kindle. (On Linux PC, the I prefer the command line program sdcv to query the same dictionary. Goldendict and other GUI readers bring in heavy libraries and are generally crappy to maintain so I stick with sdcv, sometimes piping the output to most when I'm feeling extravagant....)

From time to time, I have dabbled in converting it to newer formats, most recently slob, and the results were pretty much always rubbish.

Are there any stardict dictionary readers for (ARM) Jornada 720 or newer HPC? Since the dictionary I want to use is a gigantic couple of files totalling something like 500MB, I think it probably would not be usable on older SH3/MIPS HPCs.

That's an excellent question and I wish I could answer it. I've used stardict before--it must've been on my Zaurus SL-C1000--and remember very much liking it.

Jake

Googling around it seems that there was quite a bit of success converting stardict to mdict and reading it that way.

There's also this tantalizing hint: https://xdaforums.com/t/app-27sep09-free-mult-language-dictionary.534306/

The author's post contains some exes that seem to contain WM5 (.NET based) dictionary software in Chinese that supports stardict.

I took a look at the zip files at the bottom of the first post and they aren't what they say they are; zips are named WM5 and WM6 but this is the exe I found inside:

I don't know if this helps...There was a guy who sold Windows Mobile dictionaries for Japanese students (e.g. Dell Axim+"EB POCKET" viewer).

* He converted StarDic (German-English) to EPWING. He stated that this EPWING dictionary displayed IPA, accents and special characters.

https://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/other_dics.html

* EB's UI is a bit clunky and older but it works great IME. I think the Pro version is now free (more search options, etc). Screen shots show IPA characters work. EB supports a lot of devices so our paid dictionaries are always with us (e.g. Win 10, Mac OS, iOS, Windows Mobile).

https://ebstudio.info/home/EBPocket.html

https://ebstudio.info/

* Instructions / how to install "EB Pocket", compress dictionaries, install dictionaries. Please don't re-compress dictionaries that are already compressed.

https://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/PPC_details.html

* Instructions on how to make an EPWING dictionary.

https://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/EBstudio.html

*EPWING is an older format that seemed to have some traction in Japan at one point but I read it is not so popular these days; no idea. EPWING was on the older Casio electronic dictionaries (with strong copy protection).

Did you ever use this Zaurus dictionary software?
http://zaurus.biojapan.de/

@AximUser Nice find. I do not know this dictionary.

Jake

I mean yeah, I saw that too, but assumed it was a Windows installer. Is it not?

I think I ran it on a PC in wine and a little, goofed up dictionary window appeared. I'm not about to go executing files found at XDA on a real PC.
I tried it again, but my (junk/play) Debian system's wine mono is broken at the moment.

I'm certainly no expert, but most x86 installers for HPC ARM/SH3/MIPS software I've encountered do not use mono. You can easily pull them apart with cabextract, caber, unshield, or they're just plain old self extracting ZIP files.

Dumping the ASCII strings in BVocabularyVivid.exe shows a huge alphabetical word list (among other horkage) so it probably is some sort of dictionary, I guess. But I see nothing to indicate it's an installer or has anything to do with ARM PPC/HPC.

I have to admit I'm biased against XDA. I distrust those forums: bloaty, advert-ridden forum, full of people begging for help rooting phones.

Edited by hassilon 2024-01-06 2:05 PM






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