The project aims to create a feature-rich dictionary lookup program.
Features
The program has the following features:
* Use of WebKit for an accurate articles' representation, complete with all formatting, colors, images and links.
* Support of multiple dictionary file formats, namely:
* Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources
* StarDict .ifo/.dict./.idx/.syn dictionaries
* Dictd .index/.dict(.dz) dictionary files
* ABBYY Lingvo .dsl source files, together with abbreviations. The files can be optionally compressed with dictzip. Dictionary resources can be packed together into a .zip file.
* ABBYY Lingvo .lsa/.dat audio archives. Those can be indexed separately, or be referred to from .dsl files.
* Support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other MediaWiki-based sites to perform lookups in.
* Ability to use arbitrary websites as dictionaries via templated Url patterns.
* Ability to run arbitrary external programs for audio playback or content generation (text-to-speech, man pages etc) (use the latest Git version for this)
* Support for looking up and listening to pronunciations from forvo.com
* Hunspell-based morphology system, used for word stemming and spelling suggestions.
* Ability to index arbitrary directories with audio files for pronunciation lookups.
* Full Unicode case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding. This means the ability to type in words without any accents, correct case, punctuation or spaces (e.g. typing 'Grussen' would yield 'grU+00FCU+00DFen' in German dictionaries).
* Scan popup functionality. A small window pops up with the translation of a word chosen from another application.
* Support for global hotkeys. You can spawn the program window at any point, or directly translate a word from the clipboard.
* Tabbed browsing in a modern Qt 4 interface.
* Cross-platform: Linux/X11 and Windows + portable to others.
* Free software: GNU GPLv3+ license.
