Dictionary crashes every time I open it

[lucasmbrown-usds]

I'm using Plato on a Kobo Nia e-reader.

I downloaded English, French, and Spanish dictionaries from https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict#ebook-reader-dictionaries.

I unpacked these in the <e-reader volume>/.adds/plato/dictionaries directory.

When I'm in Plato on the Kobo, every time I click on 'define' for an individual word, it shows a blank list of words but freezes. After about 30 seconds the device restarts after crashing.

Any suggested tips?

[lucasmbrown-usds]

It turns out I had the directory structure wrong. ebook-reader-dict provides a zip file with a single directory (e.g., dict-en-en) that has several files and one directory inside of it. Originally I added this whole directory (e.g.,dict-en-en) to the dictionaries directory. When I moved all these files inside of dict-en-en to be top-level inside of dictionaries, it started working. (It might be helpful to updated the documentation of adding dictionaries to plato to indicate this.)

Now, however, all the formatting such as <p>, <i>, etc are showing up in the view rather than being rendered. Any suggestions on dealing with that?

[lucasmbrown-usds]

Alright I've found this issue and tried to run the convert dictionary script, but I'm on a Mac, so the script fails because bin/utils/dictzip does not exist. dictzip appears to be solely for Linux.

Any other suggestions for Mac users?

[baskerville]

After about 30 seconds the device restarts after crashing.

Are there any error messages in info.log?

It turns out I had the directory structure wrong.

Dictionaries are searched for recursively in the dictionaries directory: there shouldn't be any problem with the directory structure.

Any other suggestions for Mac users?

dictzip is provided by Homebrew's dict package.

[seniorm0ment]

Not sure if this is related to #303 ?