Editing StarDict

{{Short description|Free software multilingual dictionary}}
{{Refimprove|date=November 2011}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = StarDict
| screenshot = Image:Stardict-screen.png
| caption = StarDict screenshot
| released = {{release date and age|2003|03|10}}<ref>[http://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog ChangeLog]</ref>
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| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q1072451|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C++]]
| genre = [[Dictionary]]
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/huzheng001/stardict-3/blob/master/dict/debian-upstream/copyright|title=copyright|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>
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'''StarDict''', developed by Hu Zheng (胡正), is a [[Free Software|free]] [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] released under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]] license for accessing StarDict dictionary files (a ''dictionary shell''). It is the successor of '''StarDic''', developed by Ma Su'an (馬蘇安), continuing its version numbers.

According to StarDict's earlier homepage on [[SourceForge]], the project has been removed from SourceForge due to [[copyright infringement]] reports.<ref>{{Cite web|title=StarDict|url=http://stardict.sourceforge.net/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=stardict.sourceforge.net}}</ref> It moved to [[Google Code]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=StarDict 3 in Google Code Archive|url=https://code.google.com/archive/p/stardict-3|access-date=2021-09-11|website=code.google.com}}</ref> and then back to SourceForge,<ref>{{Cite web|title=StarDict - The best dictionary program in linux and windows|url=http://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=stardict-4.sourceforge.net}}</ref> while development is now seemingly continued on [[GitHub]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=GitHub - huzheng001/stardict-3|url=https://github.com/huzheng001/stardict-3|access-date=2021-09-11|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref>

==Supported platforms==
StarDict runs under [[Linux]], [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]], [[FreeBSD]], [[Maemo]] and [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]. Dictionaries of the user's choice are installed separately. Dictionary files can be created by converting [[DICT#Dict file format|dict]] files.<ref>The program to do this conversion is installed to /usr/lib/stardict-tools/dictd2dic by the stardict-tools package.</ref>

Several programs compatible with the StarDict dictionary format are available for different platforms. For the [[iPhone]], [[iPod Touch]] and [[iPad]], applications available in the [[App Store (iOS)|App Store]] include GuruDic, TouchDict, weDict, Dictionary Universal, Alpus and others, as well as the free iStarDict, which is available for the [[Cydia]] Store.

==Dictionaries available==
One can find [[DICT|here]] the partial list of FreeDict dictionaries which can be converted to the StarDict format. These include, in particular, some older versions of Webster's dictionary and many dictionaries for various languages.

==Features==
While StarDict is in ''scan mode'', results are displayed in a [[tooltip]], allowing easy dictionary lookup. When combined with Freedict, StarDict will quickly provide rough translations of foreign language websites.

On September 25, 2006, an online version of Stardict began operation. This online version includes access to all the major dictionaries of StarDict, as well as Wikipedia in Chinese.

Previous versions of StarDict were very similar to the [[PowerWord]] dictionary program, which is developed by a Chinese company, KingSoft. Since version 2.4.2, however, StarDict has diverged from the design of PowerWord by increasing its search capabilities and adding lexicons in a variety of languages. This was assisted by the collaboration of many developers with the author.<ref>{{cite web |title=存档副本 |url=http://francois.gannaz.free.fr/Littre/horsligne.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113183440/http://francois.gannaz.free.fr/Littre/horsligne.php |archivedate=2008-11-13 |accessdate=2008-09-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=存档副本 |url=http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/stardict-xmlittre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201204605/https://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/stardict-xmlittre |archive-date=2019-12-01 |access-date=2008-09-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Evgeniy A. Dushistov produced the command line version of StarDict called [[sdcv]].

==See also==
* [[Machine translation]]
* [[sdcv]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://github.com/huzheng001/stardict-3 Stardict project Github page], [http://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/ Sourceforge page], [http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/ Google Code archived page]
* [http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=stardict-dictionary RPM resource stardict-dictionary]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080322142301/http://www.permlug.org/node/3773/ How to install StarDict on Linux maemo os2008] (in Russian)

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[[Category:Free software programmed in C++]]
[[Category:Dictionary software that uses GTK]]
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[[Category:Translation dictionaries]]
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[[Category:Language software for Linux]]
[[Category:Language software for Windows]]