  stardict, developed by hu zheng (è¡æ­£), is a free gui released under the gpl for accessing stardict dictionary files (a dictionary shell). it is the successor of the program stardic, developed by ma su'an (é¦¬èå®). the version number of stardict follows that of stardic. according to stardict's earlier homepage on sourceforge, the project has been removed from sourceforge due to copyright infringement reports. there is now a stardict project on google code. ==supported platforms== stardict runs under linux, microsoft windows, freebsd, maemo and solaris. dictionaries of the user's choice are installed separately. dictionary files can be created by converting dict files.the program to do this conversion is installed to /usr/lib/stardict-tools/dictd2dic by the stardict-tools package. 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 include gurudic, touchdict, wedict, dictionary universal, fora dictionary and others, as well as the free istardict, which is available for the cydia store. android-based devices may try goldendict colordict, wordmate fora dictionary or anttek dict. there is also gtongue dictionary for windows phone. the newdicts homebrew nintendo ds program is also available for stardict. for the maemo and meego platforms, there is mdictionary, which among other dictionary formats, supports stardict. ==dictionaries available== one can find 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 languag
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