Comments on: Add Your Local Language Dictionary to iPhone

By: Cui

Cui — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:47:02 +0000

@iPhoneBlaze, Daniel is right. I’ve made it myself.Check it out,please.
@Daniel, thanks again

By: Cui - On My Way » Blog Archive » weDict Dictionary on iPhone 2.0.1

Cui - On My Way » Blog Archive » weDict Dictionary on iPhone 2.0.1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:11 +0000

[...] how-to? well, reader Daniel has put it in this comment. All same as before, except the target folder where the .dict and .idx files should be copied to, [...]

By: Known issue

Known issue — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:44:56 +0000

Same here,

manually adding dictionaries does not work yet. It works till the next restart, then the app won’t start anymore.

By: iPhoneBlaze

iPhoneBlaze — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:50:54 +0000

@Daniel
mmh but if you reboot, or sync, or open iTunes on iPhone, you got an error when you open weDict, coz weDict will verify the files with orginal packaging

By: Cui

Cui — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:03:02 +0000

Thanks, Daniel, for the timely share. BTW, i’ve learned a new SCP client from you as well, IXFER

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:41:28 +0000

Cui, install wedict from the app.store (free). Extract all the files as mentione before in this article, the copy the files ending in .dict and .idx into the WeDict.app folder under private/var/mobile/Applications/E9A87E…/WeDict.app
Open WeDict go to settings and enable all the dictionaries you want to use. I have updated to 2.0 and used IXFER for the file transfer under Windows XP.
Works just fine.

By: Cui

Cui — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:52:43 +0000

chris, i myself haven’t tried wedict on 2.0 yet. but i do see it’s listed in the App Store,which means wedict has been ported to 2.0 and should work fine.

For the dict files part, perhaps the target folder may be a little bit different, now that 2.0 has a different framework from 1.x already.
but it’s just a guess.I’ll check it out later when i’ve got time. Perhaps next week.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:05:54 +0000

Hey I got a new iPhone3g, does anything like this work for iPhone 2.0 software for just adding a few slang words like to and company names like where I work?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:21:01 +0000

Update…
I got it to work! I guess for 1.1.4 you need to paste the dictionary files into the mobile folder: private>var>mobile>Library>weDict… and it’ll work

But, my next question is: What’s the best English to Chinese dictionary? I’d love to find one that could show the pin yin because I’m trying to learn Chinese now and by just giving me the English and the Chinese character, I still don’t know how to pronounce it in Chinese… Any advice/suggestions would be wonderful!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:44 +0000

Hey,
I had used PCSuite before and i think it automatically installed WeDict w/ a Chinese/English dictionary… but when I (accidentally) upgraded to 2.0 then back down to 1.1.4… I lost it…
I tried to reinstall the WeDict using the former way, but it didn’t work… So, I manually installed WeDict and followed you directions for installing dictionaries… BUT I don’t have that directorary on my iPhone… I created a new folder in the proper place, but the dictionaries which I manually added don’t show up in WeDict when I open it… any ideas?