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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm using in my FreeBSD laptops and in my other Linux phone an
application 'stardict':

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2.
It has powerful features such as "Glob-style pattern matching," "Scan
selection word," "Fuzzy query," etc.

WWW: http://www.stardict.org

or now also 'goldendict':

The project aims to create a feature-rich dictionary lookup program.
It supports:
    * Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources;
    * StarDict .ifo/.dict./.idx/.syn dictionaries;
    * Dictd .index/.dict(.dz) dictionary files;
    * ABBYY Lingvo .dsl source files, together with abbreviations.
      The files can be optionally compressed with dictzip. Dictionary
      resources can be packed together into a .zip file;
    * ABBYY Lingvo .lsa/.dat audio archives. Those can be indexed
      separately, or be referred to from .dsl files.

WWW: http://goldendict.org/

(copied from its pkg-descr in both cases).

Both are using dictionary files which are stored locallyc, for example

$ find .stardict/
.stardict/
.stardict/dic
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict.ifo
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict.idx
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict.dict.dz
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict.idx.oft
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict(2).idx.oft
.stardict/dic/stardict-duden-2.4.2/dict.idx.clt
...

and provide as well access to resources in Internet.

Is there a similar app in Ubuntu which can use the syntax of the
stardict database files?

	matthias

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