GoldenDict-ng is an advanced dictionary lookup program, supporting many dictionary formats.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports many dictionary formats, such as MDX, DSL, StarDict, Zim…
- Presents lookup results of multiple dictionaries in the same page
- Supports special types of “dictionaries”, such as external program, website, audio files…
- Lots of auxiliary features:
- Popup window.
- Full text search.
- Anki integration.
- Transliteration for some languages.
- Word stemming and spelling correction via Hunspell’s morphology analysis.
- Unicode case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding (e.g. typing ‘Grussen’ would yield ‘grüßen’ in German dictionaries).
Features in addition to the original GoldenDict:
- Web engine with latest HTML/CSS feature support.
- Supports >4GB dictionary.
- Supports highdpi screen resolution.
- Built with xapian as fulltext engine.
- Supports latest Qt 6.
- Performance optimization (e.g. >10000000 headwords support).
- Anki integration.
- Dark theme.
- Daily auto release support.
- Lots of bug fixes and improvements.
- General code improvements for easier development.
Website: github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng
Support:
Developer: The GoldenDict-ng Community (original developer: Konstantin Isako)
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GoldenDict-ng is written in C++ and JavaScript. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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