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'''StarDict''' is a program for reading language dictionaries (AKA glossaries), written by Hu Zheng. It was intended as a successor to [[StarDic]]. Its dictionary format consists of an info file with extension ".ifo", a data file with the extension ".dict" (commonly compressed with [[Dzip]] to become ".dict.dz"), an index file with extension ".idx", and a synonyms file with the extension ".syn". This is not to be confused with the [[Dictd]] format, also uses a data file with a ".dict" or ".dict.dz" extension, but has nothing else besides an index file, for which it uses the extension ".index" instead of ".idx".

The latest StarDict version, as of 2020, is from 2015.<ref>http://www.huzheng.org/stardict/</ref>

== Identification ==
.ifo files begin with either {{magic|StarDict's treedict ifo file}} or {{magic|StarDict's dict ifo file}}.<ref>sdcv source → sec/stardict_lib.cpp → DictInfo::load_from_ifo_file</ref> The others do not seem to have anything that could serve as a definite identifier.

StarDict's .dict files can be distinguished from Dictd's by that only the latter are completely [[plaintext]] files.

== Software ==
* StarDict itself
* [http://www.goldendict.org/ GoldenDict], meant as a successor<ref>http://stardict.sourceforge.net/</ref>
* [https://dushistov.github.io/sdcv/ sdcv]
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/babiloo/ Babiloo]
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/lightlang/ LightLang]

== Sample Files ==
* [http://download.huzheng.org/bigdict/ "Big dictionaries" on the StarDict website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110519054419/http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php Index of dictionary files] on the old SourceForge site

== Links ==
* [http://www.huzheng.org/stardict/ Homepage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110519053007/http://stardict.sourceforge.net/ Original SourceForge page]
** [http://stardict.sourceforge.net/ Message currently at that address], placed there in 2011<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110724080059/http://stardict.sourceforge.net/</ref> after the project's page was taken down as a result of "copyright infringement reports", imploring the reader to switch to a different program
* [https://beijer.uk/software/stardict Page on Michael Beijer's translation site]
* [[Wikipedia:StarDict]]

== References ==
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