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Re: Babylon clones



On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Oren Held wrote:

> Hello List
>
> As far as I know there are no babylon clones (programs that can read
> babylon's dictionary file, never mind about the text recognization
> feature.. just a dictionary could be fine) that work with hebrew for
> unix/linux..

Have a look at:

http://fjolliton.free.fr/babytrans/

While that spesific project is dead, it has links to three other projects.

I heard something about qtrans 0.0.9 supposed to support hebrew.

I also heard that KQuick is having troubles interperting the hebrew in the
dictionaries.

I bnever got to test those rumors.


>
> I tried twice tomake a unix clone to support hebrew, but didn't succeed
> (I didn't spend too much time on it). I tried first babytrans, I don't
> really remember what was wrong (it was a long time ago), and some weeks
> ago I tried to make qtrans (a qt babylon) to supporthebrew, but it acted
> in a weird way.. Now, I'll explain it here and maybe you'll have any
> suggestions, bu first I would like to know if there is indeed no such a
> combination- hebrew babylon for unix.

There is also a minor issue of obtaining the dictionaries. I'm not sure I
like the approach of KQuick here...


BTW: would anybody want to write a script that will extract the words list
out of such a dictionary? (for the local copy of ispell...)

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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