Thanks Mark.MU wrote:No need to keep it.What about Pdict? Is there any reason to keep its tab or is PBDict2 performing all of Pdict's functions?
PBDict2 includes everything from the older versions.
BTW - while looking through the list of online databases, I couldn't find a single one that supports Chinese. This strikes me as a big flaw in a world dictionary, since one quarter of the world's people use this language.
I realize that representing Chinese with Western fonts and keyboards presents special problems, but Japanese has a similar problem in that it relies on some 2,000 Chinese characters for everyday usage. And yet there's a German to Japanese dictionary in the lineup.
Chinese can be represented phonetically using the pinyin system, the only additional requirement being to represent the five Mandarin tones in order to reduce the number of homophones. This is usually done by using numbers to represent the tones - (ie. wo3men2 chi5fan4 hao3ma5). It's ugly and cumbersome, but far better than nothing.
Is anyone working on this?
I've tried to get Chinese character support in Puppy 4.0 by running the Chinesesupport.pet and installing the wqy bitmap fonts following the simple instructions from CECC. But I still can't display the text on his Chinese Pet forum, and my report by PM of this failure has gone unanswered. So I'm completely frustrated in my attempts to access Chinese character text with Puppy_Seamonkey.
I'm also wondering whether there are any European online dictionary database files available for download so that Pbdict2 can access them offline? I'm particularly interested in French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
I believe you mentioned Babylon dictionaries when I asked about this initially....
Do you know of any URLs where such files can be downloaded?
PS> I tried just now to enter a single Russian word from the eng-rus freedict into pb2dict, and after following all the syntax requirements, I got the following error message when attempting to save the file:
"can't convert codeset to ISO-8859-1"
Very frustrating!
But then, even if it worked, this would never be a viable way of building a personal dictionary. In running this little test, I looked up the words, "eat food dinner lunch breakfast supper" by turns. And the last one of the six was the only one for which the eng-rus Freedict database had an entry! Not much to work with...