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Dictionaries

Wordtrans doesn't include any dictionary, you have to get them separately. Here you have some links to some dictionaries.

Wordtrans supports three kind of dictionaries:

Dictionaries from the Babylon Translator

Wordtrans supports the old format (*.dic) from the Babylon Translator dictionaries.

You can download the dictionaris in the old format from this ftp. For you easiness you have here the links to all of them:

	english.dic (469 KB) This file is needed for all dictionaries, you have to download it and install it, otherwise you won't be able to use any of the dictionaries.
	English-Spanish (3.58 MB) English-Spanish dictionary
	English-Portuguese (3.36 MB) English-Portuguese dictionary
	English-Italian (3.07 MB) English-Italian dictionary
	English-German (3.26 MB) English-German dictionary
	English-French (3.43 MB) English-French dictionary
	English-English (3.85 MB) English-English dictionary
	English-Dutch (2.73 MB) English-Dutch dictionary

Then follow the instructions included in Wordtrans documentarion to know how to install them.

Dictionaries in plain text

Wordtrans supports dictionaries in plain text. Such dictionary looks like this if you load it in a text editor:

earn (to -) : ganar (trabajando)
ear : oído
ear : oreja
earphone : auricular
earring : pendiente
earth ball : terrón
earthen : de barro

As you can see in first place is the word in one language (English, in this example) and the meaning in the other language (Spanish in the example). Between them there's a character which acts like a separator (":" in the example, but can be anything).

These dictionaries should be encoded in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, otherwise they won't be displayed correctly. If you've got a dictionary in other charset you can easily convert it to UTF-8 by using the tools iconv or recode that should be included in your linux distribution.

Packages for Debian

Some of these dictionaries have been configured to be used with Wordtrans, and packed in deb format, you only need to install them and will be ready to use (if you are using wordtrans you need to close it and open it again to see the new dictionaries in the menu).

i2e-dict_20010903-2_all.deb (195 KB) Dictionary English-Spanish for wordtrans. It contains about 24500 terms

The following dictionaries have been taken from the IDP and adapted for wordtrans:

	idp-eng-ger_19990219_all.deb (78 KB) English-German dictionary.
	idp-eng-ita_19990219_all.deb (45 KB) English-Italian dictionary.
	idp-eng-spa_19990219_all.deb (61 KB) English-Spanish dictionary.
	idp-util_19990219_i386.deb (12 KB) This package contains a small tool for converting dictionaries from the IDP from its original format to the format needed by Wordtrans.

Packages for other distros

Here you have the same dictionaries tar.gz format, for other distros. These dictionaries have to be installed and configured... manually.

	i2edict_20010903-2.tar.gz (200 KB) English-Spanish dictionary for wordtrans. It contains about 24500 terms.
	idp-dicts_19990219.tar.gz (180 KB) It includes the following dictionaries: English-German, English-Italian, English-Spanish. There's also the source code from the converter from the IDP format to latin1.

Other dictionaries

The following packages haven't been packed yet to be easily used by Wordtrans:

	Russian-English (219 KB) Dictionary obtained from this web and correctly encoded in UTF-8.
	Italian-Hungarian (273 KB) Dictionary made by Egyeki Gergely.
	English-Greek (246 KB) Dictionary sent by Vivia Nikolaidou.
	Spanish-Italian (44 KB) Dictionary sent by Michele.
	Spanish-German (143 KB) Dictionary that includes about 22.500 terms. You can get new versions from this site.

There's also a German-English dictionary, that can be installed in Debian with this command: apt-get install trans-de-en. That package does not include a configuration file for Wordtrans, so you have to configure yourself. Users from other distributions can get this dictionary from here.

Dictionaries from the DICT protocol

Wordtrans can also work with dictionaries witch use the DICT protocol (as long as you have the program dict installed). Most distributions already include many of these dictionaries, like dict-wn, dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, etc.

You can get more dictionaries in www.dict.org and www.freedict.de.