dictd: Tibetan Chinese Dictionary Released

Today (Oct 20th) I issue a simple Tibetan Chinese Dictionary (containing 3063 headwords) compiled from a web resource. The hereby noticed dictionary (software) is free to use, redistribute, modify. However, the content in this software is subject to the author (not me)'s proper right. Anyone who tries to derive a new work from this software might be found guilty.

DOWNLOAD:

• tibetan.dict
• tibetan.idx (Rename it to tibetan.index)

USE:

mv tibetan.idx tibetan.index
sudo mv tibetan.dict tibetan.index /usr/share/dictd/
sudo /usr/sbin/dictdconfig -—write
sudo /etc/init.d/dictd restart

Dictionary source: Web.

Disclaimer: The software presented is provided as "AS-IS", any cause from your use is not protected and the quality is not guaranteed. You are using it on your own risk. The author of the dictionary can claim the copyright of this work.

Build a customized DICT database

Prepare the original word-definition pair file (foobar.txt) in the following format:

:foo:definition of foo
:bar:definition of bar

Create the database (.dict, .index) using dictfmt

dictfmt --utf8 --allchars -s "Foobar Dictionary" -j foobar < foobar.txt

Move to the proper folder, and restart the DICT server dictd

mv foobar.dict foobar.index /usr/share/dictd/
/usr/sbin/dictdconfig -—write
/etc/init.d/dictd restart

You may have DICT client dict to do such query

dict foo