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#1 User is offline   leosmith 

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 10:41 AM

I'm going to China in 2 days, so I was thinking it might be a nice to have a free dictionary on my laptop. Does anyone know of one that I can use pinyin and english with?
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#2 User is offline   cdn_in_bj 

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 02:00 PM

I've been playing around with Pablo:

http://www.chinese-f...ead.php?t=16132
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#3 User is offline   leosmith 

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 02:14 AM

Pablo appears to be ideal for me, except I have to change my encoding to make it display properly (I'm using my computer for Japanese too). This involves rebooting to switch back and forth, which I'd rather not do.

Any other suggestions?
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#4 User is offline   madizi 

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 03:48 AM

Try StarDict, it's almost the same as Kingsoft Powerword:

http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
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#5 User is offline   leosmith 

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 04:51 AM

I was able to install StarDict, but it doesn't recognize the dictionaries I downloaded. Any suggestions?
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#6 User is offline   Luobot 

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 09:33 AM

Try ZDT

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Searchable database - Lookup entries by character, pinyin or english definition. ... Native CEDICT support and optional Adso support - The Cedict database contains approximately 27,000 entries. The Adso database contains more than 120,000 entries ...


That's in addition to other useful features, including word lists, flashcards, and an annotator. It's open source and free, and supported on Windows, Linux and Mac. You can't go wrong. :wink:
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#7 User is offline   haton 

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Posted 19 August 2007 - 04:07 PM

Some time ago, leosmith reported a bug with the PABLO dictionary, that failed to display characters properly if Windows was set to an Asian language by default. :oops:

A new version of Pablo is out (v1.3), that seems to solve the problem. Users with a Japanese or Chinese system should be able to take advantage of Pablo !

http://ehaton.blogspot.com
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#8 User is offline   leosmith 

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 04:39 AM

Yes, it's working just fine now. This dictionary is great. Small, and very easy to use. Highly recommended. Thanks haton.
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