First of all, thanks for this forum -- rooted my NT (first android device) yesterday using the instructions here and it's delightful.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a solution or workaround for using multiple dictionaries?
I'd like to be able to read foreign language content using the instant lookup function, but it seems that this is not built into the nook (unbelievable). Being able to replace the default English-English dictionary would also be great. Although this is a feature on the Kindle, it isn't available on the Kindle for Android app (also unbelievable). I looked at other eReader software, but "dictionary support" seems to amount to ColorDict. I'd be more than happy to splash out for some quality dictionaries, but only if I can integrate them into the reader.
The only thing I've been able to find is this, a Russian language forum where the OP seems to have gone into the file system and manually replaced the stock dictionary. I'll gladly do that if it comes down to it but was wondering if there was a less tedious / more obvious way.
bringingdadaback said:
First of all, thanks for this forum -- rooted my NT (first android device) yesterday using the instructions here and it's delightful.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a solution or workaround for using multiple dictionaries?
I'd like to be able to read foreign language content using the instant lookup function, but it seems that this is not built into the nook (unbelievable). Being able to replace the default English-English dictionary would also be great. Although this is a feature on the Kindle, it isn't available on the Kindle for Android app (also unbelievable). I looked at other eReader software, but "dictionary support" seems to amount to ColorDict. I'd be more than happy to splash out for some quality dictionaries, but only if I can integrate them into the reader.
The only thing I've been able to find is this, a Russian language forum where the OP seems to have gone into the file system and manually replaced the stock dictionary. I'll gladly do that if it comes down to it but was wondering if there was a less tedious / more obvious way.
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I tried to figure out how to change the language to German last night, but had no lucky at it. ("ro.sys.locale.language" is set to "de", as well as the country code is "DE" but yet nothing has changed.)
I think that the B&N Nook shows an incredible lack of foreign language support, and is basically I guess targeted as a "US only" device. This probably explains why the Out Of Box Experience only presents one with US timezones when it starts up. v_v
So frustrating/ridiculous! Yes, it's a "US device" but it's foolish of B&N to ignore the tens of millions of people in the US who speak or study other languages (Spanish speakers alone are pushing 30 million).
I hope the hack I mentioned in my original post works. Still waiting on my SD card to try it out.
Anyway, I posted on the B&N forums about this:
bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/NOOK-Tablet-Ideas-Suggestions/Bilingual-amp-3rd-Party-Dictionary-Support/idi-p/1262799
If anyone agrees please click the laurel leaf icon so that this issue can (maybe) get some attention.
I agree... it actually upsets me quite often that US companies typically completely ignore other languages within the US.
Apple? First thing it asks me is "what language do you want to use?" They built that flexibility in from the start. On Windows? You buy the English version, and you're stuck with English (yes, Vista and later, you can download language packs after). So, then end up having to customize and sell different copies of the OS to every different market.
OSX: we build one binary, and hey, look it works.
Windows: we have to build a different binary for every different language, and oh, some of them might not work, because English is treated specially from all of the other languages.
Posting in case someone finds it helpful
My personal workaround for the time being --
I downloaded the German version of Kindle for Android, which comes with a built-in monolingual Duden dictionary. (Fortunately my German is strong enough for this to work. Quite useless for other languages/ability levels though.)
The downloaded dictionary appears to be visible in the file system with *.mpb and *.prc file extensions. I wonder if it would be possible simply to manually swap them out with a dictionary in the same format?
Install coolreader and colordict, then downlowd whatever dictionaries you need. There are many dictionaries available online.
@wwmhf -- After reading your post I decided to dig a little deeper. I downloaded GoldenDict and then discovered lingvodics.com.
Okay, absolutely no more angst over this issue. Thanks!
bringingdadaback said:
@wwmhf -- After reading your post I decided to dig a little deeper. I downloaded GoldenDict and then discovered lingvodics.com.
Okay, absolutely no more angst over this issue. Thanks!
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Hello could you please update the title and add [resolved] at the start.
Thanks
Veronica
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Hi, try d/l an app from the market called more locale. Don't know if that suit your need of the dictionary thing, but definitely give your NT more locale to choose from (with most of the menus and some system apps name translated).
I'm on a rooted device with snowball mod in HK and wanted to play with the google voice search function for Cantonese and find no way of activating it since I can't choose any language apart from English US and UK (duh....)
After installing the more local app, I can select google voice to work with Cantonese search.
Perhaps Veronica can considering putting this under the NT Tips and Trick sticky for other poor souls that need an alternate locale.
German-German/English-English switch
bringingdadaback said:
My personal workaround for the time being --
I downloaded the German version of Kindle for Android, which comes with a built-in monolingual Duden dictionary. (Fortunately my German is strong enough for this to work. Quite useless for other languages/ability levels though.)
The downloaded dictionary appears to be visible in the file system with *.mpb and *.prc file extensions. I wonder if it would be possible simply to manually swap them out with a dictionary in the same format?
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Hey pal... I´m thinking about buying a Nook Touch. It´s cheaper and more beautiful than eReaders available in Germany. Nonetheless, I´m Brazilian - neither English nor German is my native language. I would like to have this Duden Dictionary for German books and whatever the original platform has for the english language.
How could I do that? Would you make a tutorial step-by-step for me? I´m totally rookie on these issues.
Thanks!
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If I have a running copy of an international version of WM6, would it be possible to rip the SIP from it to install on a different localized version of WM6? I am currently trying to get Japanese to work on my English Mogul, and I've kinda grown to like the Japanese SIP in the standalone WM6JP emulator image.
I can't offer any help, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing Japanese input support on my WM6 device. I used to have a few Japanese input methods on WM2002 (a kana keyboard and a a kanji/kana-recognizing transcriber), but I haven't used anything on WM6.
Well, I have succeeded in getting the system to use the Japanese font in system messages and my SMS program, but I have yet to get font linking to work. I have ripped the msgothic.ac3 font from an actual running Japanese WM6 OS, and have exported all applicable registry entries. I plan to make a cab for viewing Japanese tonight after work. The trouble starts with input. Supposedly I have to replace wince.nls to truly enabe full Japanese support, but doing that short of making a rom image for the device has been very buggy in my experience. Just in case I need it, I verified that the Japanese wince.nls has an English locale included, and have ripped it. I am just trying to find out if I can rip the SIP somehow so I don't have to rely on buggy/incomplete software for Japanese input.
http://ookii.org/software/japaneseinput/
You want install Japanese? I can help you this is my speciality
OK, first you need 2 CAB. Since I have both, I will attach to this post. Just run Localize first then run IMEJP and you will have Japanese. They both require reset your titan device after install, so just put it in your SDConfig.txt or install seperate. Now... if you do this, you will automatically type Japanese when you start windows everytime... for many non japanese, this is a problem.
I can help you.
There is a probram that I have. You just run file, pick half width english in top option, left soft key, yes, yes, done.
I hope this help you very much.
Hiromitsu
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japanese input for windows mobile
japanese input for windows mobile
http://www.mobem.com/products/cestarwm5.php
No! The cab files i post are REAL localization from WinMo JP Localization. CEStar is bad! It have a little trouble about SIP. Please just try my cabs.. I'm a Japanese... lol
i don't have any problems with cestar...
My cab files are microsoft IME 3.1 JP from Windows Mobile 6.0 JP and wince.nls from WinMo 6.1 Japanese... if you use a cestar, it have to do trick workaround for wince.nls and it make a little phone instability. Random lockup, memory leak, etc. You may not experience this problem today, but maybe after a little while you will. It is been my experience... Which you rather use, factory OEM setting or hacked functionality from company like CEStar that designs its usage mostly for Chinese? I even can make an OEM for this for your kitchen... I have experiment with it lately myself, and it works even better than cab file. Please just trust me and try MS IME.
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You want install Japanese? I can help you this is my speciality
OK, first you need 2 CAB. Since I have both, I will attach to this post. Just run Localize first then run IMEJP and you will have Japanese. They both require reset your titan device after install, so just put it in your SDConfig.txt or install seperate. Now... if you do this, you will automatically type Japanese when you start windows everytime... for many non japanese, this is a problem.
I can help you.
There is a probram that I have. You just run file, pick half width english in top option, left soft key, yes, yes, done.
I hope this help you very much.
Hiromitsu
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Hi. I know this thread is from over a year ago, but I am EXTREMELY interested in those two cabs. However, your link seems to be broken. Any chance you could tell me where to get them from? I have tried just about every thing to get Japanese on my W6.1 Sony Experia, with varied results. I have actually been able to read, I just cant input without the ookii SIP file, and I'd rather be able to have the keyboard convert romaji into hiragana and kanji like CEStar, but without the extremely low quality fonts and non-nativelike conversion settings. Please let me know if you have any new information at this point. All the best.
My method will only work if you can make your own ROM with a kitchen. If you can compile an experia ROM, then send me your email address in a private message.
I wood love to know if there are availiable any other locales except English and Espaniol? And what about keyboard input languages, the same issue, only english?
I'm for example interested in Ukrainian locale and keyboard (or Russian). MAybe there is a way to get it?
For keyboard, try Gingerbread keyboard from the Market, and install the respective language. I believe they have Russian. I have Norwegian installed on mine. Hopefully that helps. As for the other part, I don't know of anything to help ya. Sorry.
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https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Steven+Lin&start=12&num=12
Tell me if that works for ya. It's a link to the guy who has the keyboard and the language pack for Russian. Page 2.
Thanks, I will try that.
And if I will flash custom rom (Alien for example), will I get more than just two (english and espaniol) locales?
Not on home base. And I don't recall Alien being any different. So I'm gonna have to say no. Unless someone makes a ROM with that option built in. I think you're gonna be stuck with those two language options.
That's not good at all ))))
Yeah. If you wanna tackle trying to make a ROM, there is a thread in here that has books you can download and learn how to do it and such. And make your own with whatever language you want, I'd assume.
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Yeah. If you wanna tackle trying to make a ROM, there is a thread in here that has books you can download and learn how to do it and such. And make your own with whatever language you want, I'd assume.
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))) This must be the hardest way. But I woud try if there is no other way
It's the only way I can think of Bud.
Can you give me a link for those books? And other links for making a rom, if you know such.
Where in this rom 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf are localization language files? And how they can be added?
Can be taken localization files from HTC roms and added into this rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284998
That's the link. And you'd have to see if someone here who is a bit more familiar with rom's can answer that. I would assume you can use it as a base then try to pull the files and put them in. But don't quote me on that, cause I'm not totally sure. Hope that helps out some though.
I didn't have any problems with adding Russian keyboard for writing in photon. It was in 154.5 firmware and in latest too.
olegfusion said:
I didn't have any problems with adding Russian keyboard for writing in photon. It was in 154.5 firmware and in latest too.
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Yes it'avaliable, I was just inattentive.
But still I want Ukrainian interface and keyboard)) or at least Russian...
There is one more question. Phone receives USSD incorectly. What can be wrong? And how to fix it?
For example when I want to check my balance, I send *#111# and receive empty massage.
I have had issues with Swype since installing the first ICS, where it would stop working, cause the screen to freeze at the most inconvenience times. I thought I was alone with this problem, it appears not here.
I tried troubleshooting, reinstalling, clearing cache, uninstalling, reinstalling, fresh boot with nothing else loaded, nothing worked and I don't know what my problem must of been and was surprised I couldn't find anything else with it.
I searched for an alternative keyboard that would cut the mustard, I don't mind paying for things, but found slideIt not particularly good on the trial, also I do like the way Swype worked when it worked, so was looking for something similar, think I found it below.
I'm not one to normally worry about bothering anyone else, however after my woes of Swype and getting pretty much to the point of going back to Gingerbread because of it I have been very impressed, you can also utilize the unconventional keyboard layout if you wish.
Give it a go, worth it, for free anyway!
Touchpal Keyboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5&hl=en
Unique patented technologies:
1. TouchPal Curve - the first predictive sliding in the world. Pause in the middle of sliding to get long words predicted.
2. Intelligent next-word prediction. It may save up to 80% keystrokes.
3. Magic mistyping correction on Full QWERTY layout. Blind typing is no longer a dream!
4. Mixed language input allows auto language detection. No need to switch languages.
5. Innovation of T+ dual-letter layout. Bigger keys than QWERTY.
OTHER FEATURES:
- Multi-lingual support (download language packs after installation)
- Voice input (Android 2.2+)
- Outstanding dictionary with online update
- Import contact list to your user dictionary
- Backup/restore user dictionary in SD card
- Slide down on keys to quickly input
Good you found someone else with the issue but still there are far many more including me who got zero issues.
I always wipe before and after flashing.
I always use stock ROM or AOSP.
I format system every Time I went frm one type to other.
And I only use Swype as I'm used to it and even thinking about typing is tyring.
I can't believe I just read that spam excuse of a post, in Comic Sans MS no less
Is it possible to un-see something?
*hands you a bottle of hydrochloric acid to rinse your eyes out with*
Throw it back over here when you're done so I can do mine.
oinkylicious said:
I can't believe I just read that spam excuse of a post, in Comic Sans MS no less
Is it possible to un-see something?
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oinkylicious said:
I can't believe I just read that spam excuse of a post, in Comic Sans MS no less
Is it possible to un-see something?
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Yea cheers for that oinkylicious (WAC), I stated I do not normally post something, but found a benefit to myself that others may assist from. Personally I prefer Comic Sans - and?!
May I take it from your comment you don't want me to post any more.
I'll just observe, good job everyone doesn't just do that, xda would be dead and buried...
Go troll and spread your love elsewhere if you've no post related comment or have any form of positive input..
I like it when i found out cool things about my phone!
So I was going to scan one of those digital bar codes and pressed the bing search button and realized there was an option to scan text. Hmmm.... i said to myself, and gave it a try. This phone(come to find out its all windows phones) can act as an optical character recognition. You can scan an image and copy the text and paste it into a word document. And then, while i was messing around with it, i come to find out that if you just leave it with a view of the cover of book, it will recognize it and pull up searches for the book!
Maybe you know this, maybe you don't (haven't used a windows phone since the HTC Tilt) I don't know if I will ever use this feature, but it is still cool to know that this phone can do a lot of cool things I may never use.
In case you don't know, it also does the translation in-place too. So, if you are in a foreign country and want to find out what that sign or menu means, just use Bing search and point your camera to it. You do have to choose the languages. This feature used to be a separate app for WP7 but now integrated into Bing search itself.
Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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NICE! Translator is something i will use. Is this in offline mode as well? I'm just looking for things to translate now. Thanks
nMIK-3 said:
Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
vangj said:
App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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it all in the search app by pressing the search hard button. It can translate anything to anything by autodetecting the language viewed by the lense.
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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Like I said above, WP8 no longer has this app because it is part of Bing search. But it also lost offline translate that the app had.
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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It should recognize foreign text automatically. It recognized Vietnamese...but it did a really poor job translating it. Half the stuff didn't translate and the other half didn't come close to what it actually meant.
English to other languages has been pretty accurate so far though.
Have they included support for non-latin based languages? there is a Japanese grocery store by me, and they have an entire area of sauces with no english words on the bottle. so essentially, there is no way to find out what is in each of these bottles. I tired using my phone (albeit it was a samsung focus using mango at the time), and it could not recognize Japanese. did it to Vietnamese hot sauce. It didn't recognize that, either
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Have they included support for non-latin based languages? there is a Japanese grocery store by me, and they have an entire area of sauces with no english words on the bottle. so essentially, there is no way to find out what is in each of these bottles. I tired using my phone (albeit it was a samsung focus using mango at the time), and it could not recognize Japanese. did it to Vietnamese hot sauce. It didn't recognize that, either
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You need to select your translation language manually. I've tested with a few Chinese menus and it works fine.
Nice stuff!
we had a cab on windows mobile that could scan business cards and put the information straight into the contacts app.worked pretty good too. is this supported as well?
Allright, I recently got my hands on a cheap mt6572 phone and I intended to give it as a gift, but it only has english and some Asian languages available in the settings menu, and since the person I was going to give this phone to doesn't speak english or any sort of chinese-like language, I'd like to know if it is possible to add other languages to the android(4.2.2) running on this phone. Considering that those apps on the store that supposedly add languages have already been tested and don't seem to work.
batoussai said:
Allright, I recently got my hands on a cheap mt6572 phone and I intended to give it as a gift, but it only has english and some Asian languages available in the settings menu, and since the person I was going to give this phone to doesn't speak english or any sort of chinese-like language, I'd like to know if it is possible to add other languages to the android(4.2.2) running on this phone. Considering that those apps on the store that supposedly add languages have already been tested and don't seem to work.
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Hi. No way, without recompile system firmware.
"The settings app just shows you all of the locales that are available in the platform resources. Adding strings for a new locale should automatically have those shown in settings. You tell the build system which locale resources to include when it does the build... unfortunately I can't help you on that part, but maybe someone else can."
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I can't posting links in messages (less than 10 messages), but if you need details, can write PM.
h33x said:
Hi. No way, without recompile system firmware.
I can't posting links in messages (less than 10 messages), but if you need details, can write PM.
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Oh well. Sounds like trouble considering that the phone does not feature proper recovery (like CWM) for restoring everything in case something goes wrong =/
Anyway, if you could PM me the link I'll do some risk analysis XD