So, I spent some time trying to find a free English-Chinese dictionary for Windows Mobile. How naive was I to think that it would be easy?
In the end, I jerry-rigged one using the free CEDICT database and an ebook reader. My compiled file and rough instructions are hosted on a page of this blog:
http://blog.perceptus.ca/windows-mobile-cedict/
It’s an ugly jerry-rigged thing. But it’ll have to do for now, for me at least.
P.S. Comments have just been enabled on pages on the Perceptus Back Story blog. Please comment if the dictionary ebook is useful to you… or if you have a source for a better Mandarin Pinyin offline dictionary for WM PDAs.
Tags: chinese, dictionary, pda, windows mobile
December 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
This’ll be great if it actually works. I’m going to try it out right now.
February 25th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
thanks..great job..it so hard to find it right now