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FreeDict - free bilingual dictionaries
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The FreeDict project aims at providing free (open source) dictionary databases,
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to be used both by humans and machines.
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The official home is at <https://freedict.org>, where you can find documentation
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for dictionary usage and development.
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Dictionary Sources
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This repository only contains dictionaries which are manually written. It is
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**not** the official FreeDict source. Please visit
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<https://freedict.org/downloads> to view all sources or
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<https://download.freedict.org/generated> for the imported/generated ones.
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Development
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All dictionaries are encoded in [TEI (version 5)][tei_v5] which is a
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flexible XML format to encode human speech. The FreeDict project
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provides dictionaries but also style sheets to convert the TEI
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databases into human-readable formats.
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At the moment, the [dict format][dict] and the [SLOB format][slob] are
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supported.
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The development documentation is in our wiki at
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<https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki>.
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Installation
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You can install precompiled dictionaries on GNU/Linux distributions like Debian
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(and all derived distributions as Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and Arch Linux. Please
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have a look at your package manager.
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If you still want to build from source and you don't want to read the wiki,
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here's a really quick getting started guide:
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- Get <https://github.com/freedict/tools>, clone it to a path without spaces
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and set an environment variable called `FREEDICT_TOOLS` pointing there.
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- Change to your dictionary, try `make help`. For building `make` should be
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enough, at least if you have both tei2slob and xsltproc installed. It's also
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possible to disable some of the output formats, ask our friendly buildsystem
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for help: `make help`.
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[dict]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
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[slob]: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
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[tei_v5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative
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