iBooks Dictionaries In Other Languages?

[evangw]

Originally Posted by Mariino

Hi, first of all congratz with your new iPhone 5.
But I'm having a problem using this method. I am a ios6 user on my iPod touch 4g and I am running a tethered jailbreak, so I have no problem getting into the root directory using iexplorer. But I can't seem to find the dictionaries folder anywhere. What should I do?

If it's not in /Library/Dictionaries, then I don't know. You'll have to search (via a command prompt either with the terminal app on the phone or via SSH) for one of the files that should exist, running these two commands:

cd /
find . -name BKDictionaryManager_LanguageToOrder.plist

once you're ssh'd in. Let us know where it is; I don't plan on updating any of my iDevices to iOS6 unless I'm forced to, e.g. buy buying an iPad 4.

[Mariino]

Originally Posted by evangw

If it's not in /Library/Dictionaries, then I don't know. You'll have to search (via a command prompt either with the terminal app on the phone or via SSH) for one of the files that should exist, running these two commands:

cd /
find . -name BKDictionaryManager_LanguageToOrder.plist

once you're ssh'd in. Let us know where it is; I don't plan on updating any of my iDevices to iOS6 unless I'm forced to, e.g. buy buying an iPad 4.

I tried searching it using terminal app but i really don't know what i'm doing, lol. I typed the commands you said but all I get is "There is no such file or directory"
Obviously i'm doing something wrong, but I don't know how I should look for it.

[slipshod]

Originally Posted by evangw

If it's not in /Library/Dictionaries, then I don't know. You'll have to search (via a command prompt either with the terminal app on the phone or via SSH) for one of the files that should exist, running these two commands:

cd /
find . -name BKDictionaryManager_LanguageToOrder.plist

once you're ssh'd in. Let us know where it is; I don't plan on updating any of my iDevices to iOS6 unless I'm forced to, e.g. buy buying an iPad 4.

I'm on ios6 too, not jailbroken. I found the above plist, it's in the folder named ibooks.app, not libraries, etc. I wasn't able to copy it to my mac but copied it fine using the pc version of iexplore (also pc ver of ifunbox) for whatever reason. Maybe my mac settings. So that's fine. Problem is the dictionaries folder is still not showing up.

If you go into the further language project folders (french.lproj, etc.) in the ibooks.app folder and take a look at the defaultdictionaries.plist in there it gives the location for the dictionary file as /Library/Dictionaries/, so that hasn't changed. But no file explorer I've found will show the dictionaries folder. Anyway that's just pecking around for twenty minutes. If anyone knows how to make the dictionaries folder appear please let me know.

[McGerky]

Hello everyone,

I followed your discussion after all I ended up with IOS6 with my ipad mini but I'm highly interested to integrate an dictionary in iBooks.

Is there any chance to put these specific .dictonary file into the folders of the ipad mini (which is not jailbroken?).

Or maybe there is now a chance to do so even for io6?

Thank you for your information and support, it would be great to have such a feature within iBooks....

[evangw]

Originally Posted by Mariino

Hi, first of all congratz with your new iPhone 5.
But I'm having a problem using this method. I am a ios6 user on my iPod touch 4g and I am running a tethered jailbreak, so I have no problem getting into the root directory using iexplorer. But I can't seem to find the dictionaries folder anywhere. What should I do?

To anyone coming across this: just pick the word that has no definition. Your device should pull up an option to download a dictionary in that language. The dictionaries are pretty nice and work for Spanish, Dutch, German, French, and Italian, in addition to the already-extant English and Japanese dictionaries. It may also work for other languages, e.g. I see potential for Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, Polish, Korean, Italian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese, but I have not tested these.


If you want a custom dictionary (e.g. a translating dictionary), you'll have to figure out a workaround, but I think for 95% of people the official solution should now be fine.

I'd been holding off on updating my iPad until a jailbreak came out, just for this reason... only to find out I didn't need to wait and jailbreak. I may tinker around to see if I can change the dictionaries, but it's more of a hobby thing than a need at this point.