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ctennenh is offline ctennenh
2009-04-01 , 14:41
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#1
I'm looking for an English-Chinese dictionary for a trip to China. I'm not interested in characters, and would be happy with something where I can type in English and get the pinyin. From reading these forums and elsewhere it looks like Stardict will be my best option, but I can't seem to find a dictionary with what I want. Does anyone know if there is one out there? I've checked at http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php and it's probably there but I'm having trouble navigating.

Also, any other software anyone could give me advice on would be great, even Windows/Tablet PC specific stuff.
Thanks.
 
pawpawyoung is offline pawpawyoung
2009-04-02 , 08:42
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#2
For Dictionaries:
please go to http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_zh_CN.php, at least it works for me.
For Online dict, you can go to:
http://www.dict.cn/
http://www.iciba.com/
For free dict software for Windows go to:
http://g.iciba.com/
And if you need need a free guide/translate, you can contact me at: pawpawyoung(at)gmail(dot)com, I'm in Beijing, China.
Happy trip.
 
ctennenh is offline ctennenh
2009-04-02 , 13:36
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#3
Thanks.
I looked at that page but don't know which dictionary to use. There are quite a few on that page and don't need characters. I'd rather not use a dictionary with Chinese characters, actually, to avoid having to install Chinese support in Maemo. Maybe I'll try them all out and see which works best for me.

Also, thank you for the offer to help.
 
fast1 is offline fast1
2009-04-02 , 13:59
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#4
i can read chinese, hit me up if you need help
 
ctennenh is offline ctennenh
2009-04-02 , 14:17
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#5
Thanks, guys.
I tried all the dictionaries at pawpawyoung's link and none translate en->zh with pinyin. They are either zh->en or en->zh with only characters and no pronunciation.

Are there are e-book dictionaries I could use with FBReader? Even a 2-column text file with english on the left and pinyin/pronunciation on the right would do.
 

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ctennenh is offline ctennenh
2009-04-02 , 14:57
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#6
I think I've found an acceptable solution.
I downloaded the latest CEDICT .u8 file from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cedict
I opened it in notepad and replaced every [ and ] with /
I then opened the file in Excel using / as a delimiter, so my columns were:
A: character (I don't have Chinese support in Excel so this is unreadable)
B: pinyin. CEDICT uses numbers for tones, so it's not as nice as having the tone above the vowel
C: English

Then it's just a matter of deleting column A, reordering the columns and sorting by the English, and I have an alphabetical English->Pinyin dictionary. I'll try loading it onto the IT as a text file and see how FBReader handles it.
 
phyre90 is offline phyre90
2009-08-21 , 08:48
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#7
I spent a lot of time looking for an English to Chinese (pinyin) solution for my N810. I ended using stardict with a custom dictionary based on the cedict 1.0 file. Using the bash script below to convert cedict to babylon format. Then stardict tools to convert the babylon file to stardict format (google for current cedict file and stardict-tools). Works fine for me.

I'm not very good at bash, so use at your own risk. If you know how to optimize the script, let me know.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Converts cedict to English -> Chinese babylon file
# using cedict_1_0_ts_utf8_mdbg.  Use stardict-tools
# to convert $OUTFILE to stardict format.

CEDICT_FILE=$1
OUTFILE=$2
COUNTER=35
ENDLINE=`cat $CEDICT_FILE | wc -l`

touch $OUTFILE
while [ $COUNTER -le $ENDLINE ]
do
	WLINE=`sed -n ${COUNTER}p $CEDICT_FILE`
	echo $WLINE | sed 's/.* \///' | sed 's/\/.$//' | tr "/" "|" >> $OUTFILE
	echo $WLINE | awk -F / '{print $1 "\n"}' >> $OUTFILE
	((COUNTER++))
done
 
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jukzh is offline jukzh
2010-10-23 , 23:10
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#8
PHP Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX 300

int parser(char string[])
{
 int c, i;
 for (i=0; i < MAX && (c=getchar()) != EOF && c != '\n'; ++i)
     string[i] = c;
 if (c == '\n') {
    string[i] = c;
    ++i;
 }
 string[i] = '\0';
 return i;
}

int split(const char src[], char prt[], int del, int idx)
{
 int i = 0, j = 0;
 if (!idx) { 
     while ((prt[j++] = src[i++]) != '\0' && src[i] != '\n' && src[i] != del && i < MAX);
     prt[i] = '\0';
 } 
 else {
    int n = 0;
    while (src[i++] != '\0' && src[i] != '\n' && i < MAX) {
       if (src[i] == del) {
           if (++n == idx) {
               i++; 
            while ((prt[j++]=src[i++]) != '\0' && src[i] != '\n' && src[i] != del && i < MAX);
           prt[j] = '\0';
           }
       }
    }
 }
 return j;
}

int get_range(const char *str, int del) {
 int i=0, j = 0;
 while (*str++ != '\0' && i++ < MAX) {
    if (*str == del) 
        j++;
 }
 return j; 
}

int main()
{
 char prt[300], def[300], line[300];
 int i, j, len, range;
 while ((len = parser(line)) > 0) {
       range = get_range(line, '/');
    j = split(line, def, '/', 0);
       for (i=1; i < range; i++) {
            j = split(line, prt, '/', i);
               printf("%s\t%s\n", prt, def);
       }
  }
 return 0;
} 
Sample build:
Code:
cc ce2ec.c
cat cedict_ts.u8 | ./a.out > ecdict.tab
sudo apt-get install stardict-tools
/usr/lib/stardict-tools/tabfile ecdict.tab
sudo mkdir /usr/share/stardict/dic/ecdict
sudo mv ecdict.* /usr/share/stardict/dic/ecdict
sudo -hr root:root /usr/share/stardict/dic/ecdict
stardict
echo 'Everything should be just ok xD';
Last edited by jukzh; 2010-10-24 at 00:09.
 
Anthuzad is offline Anthuzad
2010-11-28 , 21:00
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#9
Hey guys,

I'm new here (this is actually my first post) and still pretty green with linux (the only instance of linux i run is on my n900 :P )

I'm also on the search for an english to chinese (with pinyin) dictionary for stardict. From what I've gathered here cedict seems to be the way to go, but I have absolutely NO idea how to convert the u8 file into stardict format. I've found mveplus's converted version here but that still is chinese (with pinyin) to english. Could somebody point me into the right direction on how to swap the entries and turn it into english to chinese (with pinyin)?

I would be ever so grateful!

Best regards,

Anthu
Last edited by Anthuzad; 2010-11-28 at 21:01. Reason: typos
 
s331234 is offline s331234
2010-12-20 , 06:09
Posts: 1 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Nov 2010
#10
I wrote a small .net prog and have reversed the CEDICT ch-en dictionary to en-ch.

I then used the stardict convert tool to output it into the Startdict format, copied it to my N900 and now using msdict can translate english to chinese (both trad/sim characters and pinyin).

I'll be happy to share it with anyone who needs it, just let me know where I can upload it (around 4mb compressed).

I'm currently in Beijing, so not all file sharing servers might be accessible by me.

Cheers,

Steve.
 

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