Monday, December 25, 2006

Shabdanjali the Hindi Dictionary

I saw the Shabadanjali Dictionary while working with Shashi Palekar ji on her Paper on MultiLigual Dictionaries.But it was ISCII based and requires a plugin to display the characters which is never a good idea. Unicode rocks and should be a standard application.

While surfing i found shabdkosh.com and the Unicode version of shabdanjali for windows, which can be easily implemented with Linux.

For Installing the dictionary just Use

#sudo apt-get install stardict

and extract the files in /usr/share/stardict/dic.

http://www.gauravmishra.info/shabdanjali.zip

7 comments:

Ashish SHUKLA said...

IISC based ? Or do you mean ISCII ?

Rocky said...

Oops a big typo, i mean ISCII only . Thanks 4 pointing out...

makuchaku said...

majain owns stardict packaging responsibility for FC :P
...& that reminds me, I still have to update it to the latest upstream release :)

Rocky said...

@maku
Ohh cool stardict is a wonderful tool and it`s good u r contributing .

Here`s one feature request to maintainer ;), Can we have shabdanjali dictionary embedded with it. at 1.1 mb can fedora bear the cost ?,
it would be really interseting..

makuchaku said...

Hi Rocky,
I just repackage the product for fedora/rhel. If you need to request a new feature, you need to request it on stardict-devel mailing list. I'm sure, the'll be happy to hear from you :)

raj said...

hey rocky,
this hindi dictionary looks cool
i have found a web site www.quillpad.in/telugu where in it converts hindi in english script to hindi in hindi script.check this out
this is interesting

Nishikant Tiwari said...

thanks for giving that link
NIshikantWorld