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Hello guys,

I have searched far and wide on the website and this forum, but I cannot find how to make my own dictionary. The only guide I´ve found is Russian, which is impossible for me to read.

The dictionary has to be both english and chinese and has to include images.

Hi Nico,
Here is something that you could find useful. I have added all my personal glossaries to GoldenDict following this method.
http://jalasthana.de/?p=828#toc-install ... -converter
Basically, it tells you how to create the files needed to create a Stardict dictionary (fortunately, a format compatible with GD).
I hope this helps!

Hi Nico,

I'd recommend the DSL format. It is a very simple, text-based dictionary format that doesn't require any additional tooling at all.

Take a look here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1232

And here: https://github.com/VVSiz/SampleDSL

For images, all you need to do is to place the files in the same directory where the main *.DSL file resides and use something like this to include images into the articles:

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[s]image.jpg[/s]

Thank you for your replies, this has helped me a lot. I have one more question tho, is it possible to make GoldenDict a web based dictionary? This would help me tremendously.

Thanks in advance!

Hi Guys

Am a new user of Goldendict and I am quite enthusiastic about this application.
Now am trying to make my own dictionaries. For this, I use the "dsl method" with Notepad++. It works pretty well for english but I have some problems with language having special caracters, like in French. I get cyrillic caracters instead of the french letters.

How can I resolve this problem?

Thank you

GuilC

GuilC wrote:How can I resolve this problem?

Hi there!

Make sure that your DSL file is a proper UTF-8 encoded file with UTF-8 BOM at the top.

What's Notepad++ says about your DSL file encoding (at the status bar, in the right bottom corner)?

Thank you!
That was the point. I totally forgot to change, it was Ansi.
Thanks again.