Lingoes

Latest revision as of 20:31, 14 September 2020

Lingoes if a program for reading language dictionaries (AKA glossaries) with an emphasis on translation dictionaries, "often compared"^[2] to Babylon. It uses a dictionary format whose versions have the extensions ".lds" and ".ld2". There is a reference to a ".ldx" extension, apparently also used for the ld2 format^[3]; this may just be a concise way of referring to both the extensions at once.

As of 2020, the last release of Lingoes was in 2014.^[4]

[edit] Software

• Lingoes itself
• lingoes-extractor, dumps Lingoes dictionaries to text files
• lingoes-converter, also dumps to text files

[edit] Identification

.lds files seem to start with ASCII LDIC.^[5] .ld2 files seem to start with ?LD2 ("?" here is a literal question mark rather than a placeholder character).^[6]

[edit] Sample Files

• Dictionaries on the Lingoes site, as of writing .ld2 files
• Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (Direct link), .lds file

[edit] Links

• Website
• Wikipedia:Lingoes
  • The Wikipedia page has had some information removed from it over time; [1] might be the fullest version.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Copyright date on bottom of http://lingoes.net/en/translator/download.htm
2. ↑ Wikipedia:Lingoes
3. ↑ https://github.com/nviet/lingoes-converter
4. ↑ http://lingoes.net/en/translator/download.htm
5. ↑ Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (see #Sample Files)
6. ↑ Concise English Dictionary (Direct link)