Comments on Shevin: How to implement the Babylon dictionaries in Ubunt...

I used your guide in one on my computers and it wo...

2008-12-06T05:27:00.000-08:00

I used your guide in one on my computers and it worked perfectly, nevertheless in another one i did the same thing but stardict cant see the dictionaries, i mean they are in /usr/share/stardict/dics but when i open stardict and go to manage dictionaries they are not there... what can i do?

my email is t4ggs@yahoo.com

thank u.

thank you.

2008-12-05T22:58:00.000-08:00

thank you.

you are great !how can I install Farsi font for th...

2008-11-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

you are great !

how can I install Farsi font for the dictionary?

Thanks for the help...great tutorial.

2008-11-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the help...great tutorial.

Thank you very much for your help!:-)

2008-08-18T10:33:00.000-07:00

Thank you very much for your help!
:-)

Hey, man. Thank you for posting your help. It aid ...

2008-07-16T14:27:00.000-07:00

Hey, man. Thank you for posting your help. It aid me.

Thanks,
Marcio Wesley Borges
http://www.marciowb.net/blog

Hmmm probably obvious to others but make sure you ...

2008-05-21T23:21:00.000-07:00

Hmmm probably obvious to others but make sure you use the correct directory names in your native language. Desktop = Skrivbord in Swedish ahhh.

Have you tried to convert "hfarsi advanced"?It giv...

2008-02-13T00:18:00.000-08:00

Have you tried to convert "hfarsi advanced"?
It gives me the error: "Error opening hfarsi.bgl"
Hfarsi is a really great English to Farsi dictionry and It would be so nice to have it also in stardic.
If you could convert it, please let me know.
Thanks, Ahmad.

For those who dont want to wait, here some small i...

2008-02-06T07:15:00.000-08:00

For those who dont want to wait, here some small instructions:

1) wget http://mattneri.altervista.org/files/dictconv-0.2.1.tar.gz
(there are some other bugs fixed in that file, dunno if they influence the outcome)
2) unzip file
3) gedit src/babylonreader.cpp
4) after while( entry.headword != "" )
{(line 52) insert

int pos = entry.headword.find_first_of('$');
if (pos > 0)
{
entry.headword = entry.headword.substr(0,pos);
}

5) done! ./configure && make && sudo make install

I fixed the bug with the dollar sign words, and th...

2008-02-06T07:04:00.000-08:00

I fixed the bug with the dollar sign words, and the problem that it does not recognize some simple words.

If you want to have that version, please write me to my gmail-accout, username is florian.bw.

I will try to contact the dictconv author and put it online somewhere when I have time.

Bast, Florian

There is an easy (not so elegant) way to tackle th...

2007-12-30T08:25:00.000-08:00

There is an easy (not so elegant) way to tackle the word$12345$ problem. Just convert as usual the .bgl dictionary to plain text .dic. Open it in Open Office Writer, in “find and replace” dialog, check “Regular expression” and use \$[:digit:]*\$ for replacing all the occurrences of $12345$.
Save and use the stardict-editor tool for building stardict dictionary from plain text file (“tab file” in stardict terminology). stardict-editor comes with stardict-tools package.
Next, dictzip the .dict file and move to stardict share directory as usuall.

HTH.

Hi, I have installed English Hebrew babylon dictio...

2007-12-12T15:33:00.000-08:00

Hi, I have installed English Hebrew babylon dictionary but for some reason I'm getting jybrish instead of Hebrew, what can I do?

You are the guy, I've looked many years a software...

2007-12-05T10:39:00.000-08:00

You are the guy, I've looked many years a software to convert .bgl to other format, like stardict. Thank you very much!
I had the same problem with word$94944$ and I think that it could easily fixed, maybe. I think the problem is in the .idx files. I still didn't look the source code but I imagine that when you are generating the .idx you could check the 'word$448484$' patern and fix it to 'word'.
Thank you again! ;-)

hey there, very clear, but i only want to install ...

2007-11-20T12:56:00.000-08:00

hey there, very clear, but i only want to install arabic and portuguese dictionaries for example, on a patched version of babylon.so, what do i do, i go on the babylon site and install them, ok, but when i return to the software, the .bgl's don`t quite work, actually don`t work at all.
please, i really need this program, HEEELP me please.
thanks

very nice guide.I was wondering whether you found ...

2007-09-28T10:46:00.000-07:00

very nice guide.

I was wondering whether you found it possible to bind a keyboard shortcut to translate selected text (as in babylon)?

Hi Shevin!I tried to do as you said but at last st...

2007-09-14T13:53:00.000-07:00

Hi Shevin!
I tried to do as you said but at last step when I try convert dictionary from .BLG to .ifo I get the next error message : Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Do you have any suggestion what reason for this ?

What a guide, nice work, man.Thanks a lot :)

2007-08-27T16:11:00.000-07:00

What a guide, nice work, man.
Thanks a lot :)

Salaam doctor..I've installed the dictionary as we...

2007-08-23T15:11:00.000-07:00

Salaam doctor..

I've installed the dictionary as well as some packages form the babylon website.

The problem is stardict does not translate anything.. it just lists all available words and thats it...

any idea?

did I miss anything?

Ian, I had to install an incredible amount of soft...

2007-08-09T13:28:00.000-07:00

Ian, I had to install an incredible amount of software to succeed. Install fortran, and in particularly do not forget xml2 DEV (devel packages).

Special tx for ur guide :)

2007-07-19T01:38:00.000-07:00

Special tx for ur guide :)

Nice guide! Unfortunately, I have the same problem...

2007-06-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

Nice guide! Unfortunately, I have the same problem as cj when using Babylon-English-English.BGL dictionary.

Hope dictconv gets better in the near future.

Cassiel

Hi Shevin, tnx a lot for your guide.Hi Jan.Synapte...

2007-06-11T02:53:00.000-07:00

Hi Shevin, tnx a lot for your guide.

Hi Jan.

Synaptec Package Manager, and search g++, and install it, after that try it pls. i hope that the error will disappear. good luck

my email is muugii_gal@yahoo.com

My email is jan.ekbom@gmail.com

2007-05-27T13:42:00.000-07:00

My email is jan.ekbom@gmail.com

How to install c++, cc, cxx and so on? I can't fi...

2007-05-27T13:41:00.000-07:00

How to install c++, cc, cxx and so on? I can't find the proper packages in Synaptic. Please write that down and give the broader picture to the none-programmer Ubuntu user.

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Tried restarting and that - doesn't help unfortuna...

2007-05-11T18:17:00.000-07:00

Tried restarting and that - doesn't help unfortunately.
I'll look and see if I can see if the word$13123$ problem stems from some weird characters still being in the dictionaries perhaps.
I'll let you (or your blog at least) know if I find anything :)

Thanks