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Horra, this time dictionary was installed on my Nokia N900
that was great, I did the same process today. wierd but it worked this time.
thanx

strange situation: I find the update to QStarDict 0.13.2-3, I downloaded & installed it but when I check again in update I find it again! everytime!
why?

What extension should the dictionary file be? I have tried many possible file formats, in many possible directiries, and the dictionary refuses to find any of them.

This is very frustrating, could the instructions be a little more precise? Including the file extention and the exact directory nedded on the N900 would be more than helpful. Thanks.

@fareastcoast
Does chinese input work in other Qt based applications? Can you switch language in them?

@oldpmaguy
Folder with dictionary usually contains 3 files with .dict.dz .idx and .ifo extensions.

@oldpmaguy:
1) download your dictionary on your pc from: http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down2/inde...ormat=StarDict
2) uncompress it using your pc program. if you use linux, just click on file and use your relative program to uncompress it. otherwise install file roller from repos. If you use windows use winrar (or http://7-zip.org)
3) at this point, after uncompress operation, you will have a folder (in my case stardict-English_Italian-2.4.2) with 3 files inside:
English_italian.dict.dz
English_italian.idx
English_italian.ifo
4) open xterminal on your N900 and write:
mkdir /home/user/.stardict/dic/
5) copy folder inside /home/user/.stardict/dic/ directory
To do this connect your N900 to your pc as mass store and copy (by clicking your mouse) your dict folder into MyDocs folder.
After did disconnect N900 from your PC, open xterminal and digit:
cd MyDocs
mv your_dict_folder /home/user/.stardict/dic/
(eg. in my case, like before:
mv stardict-English_Italian-2.4.2 /home/user/.stardict/dic/)
that's all

tell me if it works!

Thank you for your reply and help, maemo.it.

Actually, I could never use that much code, I am totally unfamiliar with it.

What I did was just extract the folders exactly as they were, and move the contents exactly as they were, to a folder named "dic"in the "root" of the N900 (i.e.the base folder as viewed in Windows Explorer when connected via USB).

(Small exception, after extracting the .bz2 files using Winrar, there was another level of folder with the same name twice - so I moived the files up one level and deleted the repeat-named folder).

Now QStarDic sees the dictionaries - finally.

One more note, I found a huge repository of dictionary files, from anoither site, but all are links directly to the sourceforge site. I couldn't track back the links to their sourcepages at sourceforge - SF is notoriously hard to navigate, AFAIAC.

Here is the link. I a pretty sure this is a legitimate set og links, i.e. not illegal files, but if there is a problem, mods pls delete.

http://reciteword.sourceforge.net/stardict/babylon.php

forget it.

I put the dict files in the .qstardict dir instead of the .stardict directory
reading fail

greap app thanks, how do i install audio?

@oldpmaguy: happy you found my post useful! Please thanks me
Thank you to you for dicts links. dicts here are more completed than other links.. (at least regard eng<->ita)
@Ronaldo: install espeak from repos

Anyone try a web dictionary? If so, which ones do you like or works best? And what exactly to you enter in the HTTP query field?