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Dictionary Formats
Saeed Rasooli edited this page Apr 11, 2023
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This page attempts to give an overview about dictionary formats and a brief summary on their application. It's not extensive, but might help you getting an overview about current formats and previously developed projects.
- Structure: indexed Headwords linked to a plaintext body
- Used by: [Dict Clients](Dict Clients) and [Dict Servers](Dict Servers), GoldenDict, GNOME Dictionary
- Structure: see http://www.stardict.org/StarDictFileFormat
- Supports HTML, XDXF and plain text
- Used by: StarDict, GoldenDict, GoldenDict by xiaoyifang, QStarDict, QDict (Android), SDCV (command-line)
- Also see this list.
- Structure: Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store with dictionary-like interface to look up content by text keys
- Used by: Aard 2
- Used by: FreeDict
- Standardized format for linguistic exchange, see the pages of the TEI Group
- Aims at providing a common file format for dictionary exchange, similar to FreeDict's approach to have a pivot format for dictionary distribution
- seems inactive