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After clicking a word in English entries I get a popup with a definition of specific word. However now I can get definitions only in some Asian (Japanese?) language.
Can I change that in the settings?
I want to change this, to get:
English -> Polish
or
English -> English
translations with definition of words.
I will appreciate your help,
Krzysztof
Can I change that in the settings?
I want to change this, to get:
English -> Polish
or
English -> English
translations with definition of words.
I will appreciate your help,
Krzysztof
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Did the popups translate to Polish before and then switch to Japanese? Or have you only seen the Japanese ones?
After clicking a word in English entries I get a popup with a definition of that specific word.
However, so far I can only get definitions in some Asian language. (Japanese?)
translations with definitions of words.
For English-English I usually recommend dictionary.com or en.wiktionary.org. The former usually has more definitions (because it draws from a variety of sources) and also features a thesaurus, but Wiktionary is good too and will also give you English definitions for words in other languages, e.g., I use it to look up Japanese words sometimes.
For English-Polish you could try Babelfish (babelfish.yahoo.com) or the Polish Wiktionary.
It should be possible to create bookmarklets to take the word you currently have selected (highlighted) and look it up in a new tab or window. Let's see... something along these lines perhaps...
javascript: x = escape(getSelection());
if (x.length) {
window.open('http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/' + x);
}
It might even be possible to create a browser extension to do lookups on those sites and pop up the results overlaid on the current page somehow, similar to the Lang-8 pop-ups, but my knowledge of XUL isn't up to the task.