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Title: Can Mdict Be Ported To Zaurus?
Post by: WM_vs_Linux on March 14, 2006, 10:28:14 am

Mdict is an excellent free dictionary reader with a lot of dictionary databases(i have 50 more but am sure there are more than that). But it is only awailable for MS PPC and smartphone. Here is the link for its official site: http://www.octopus-studio.com/index.en.htm (http://www.octopus-studio.com/index.en.htm)
Can it be ported to mobile linux platform?

Title: Can Mdict Be Ported To Zaurus?
Post by: kurochka on March 14, 2006, 11:46:06 am

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Mdict is an excellent free dictionary reader with a lot of dictionary databases(i have 50 more but am sure there are more than that). But it is only awailable for MS PPC and smartphone. Here is the link for its official site: http://www.octopus-studio.com/index.en.htm (http://www.octopus-studio.com/index.en.htm)
Can it be ported to mobile linux platform?
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It appears that Mdict is free for non-commercial use but it is not open source.  So, only the developer can port it to Linux if he wants to.

Another approach could be to write a separate Linux (Qtopia/X) reader for the dictionary files if their format is open.  If the files are not closed, they could possibly be converted to be used with the existing dictionaries for Zaurus such as Zbedic.

Title: Can Mdict Be Ported To Zaurus?
Post by: WM_vs_Linux on March 14, 2006, 02:11:04 pm

Yes, If a dictionary reader that reads MDX files can be compiled then all Mdict dictioanries can be used.

Title: Can Mdict Be Ported To Zaurus?
Post by: pungipungi on March 14, 2006, 05:49:37 pm

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Yes, If a dictionary reader that reads MDX files can be compiled then all Mdict dictioanries can be used.

It seems that most of the dictionaries are  converted from public available formats. Some are converted from freedict. All these are also available in bedic format.
It should also be possible to convert the rest to bedic.

andreas

Title: Can Mdict Be Ported To Zaurus?
Post by: WM_vs_Linux on March 15, 2006, 07:43:25 am

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Yes, If a dictionary reader that reads MDX files can be compiled then all Mdict dictioanries can be used.

It seems that most of the dictionaries are  converted from public available formats. Some are converted from freedict. All these are also available in bedic format.
It should also be possible to convert the rest to bedic.

andreas
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I wish i can convert all my MDX dictionary files to Bedic files so that i can translate freely between chinese, english, german, latin.