DictionaryforMIDs: English-German dictionary

DictionaryforMIDs version: 3.5.7
Dictionary edition: 1.0 (24Feb99)
Entries (English -> German): 93,280
Entries (German -> English): 81,692

This dictionary was created from the English -> German dictionary and German -> English dictionary from FreeDict.  FreeDict originally got the dictionary file from Frank Richter's "ding" database. The ding database is released under the GPL license.  Freedict used version 1.0 of the ding database (24Feb99).  It contained 111,088 entries.  As DictionaryforMIDs uses the FreeDict dictionary as a base, it also uses version 1.0 of the ding database.  The current version of the ding database is 1.6 (17Apr09).  It contains 155,892 entries.

The ding dictionary is only German -> English.  The developers of FreeDict converted the German -> English dictionary into an English -> German dictionary.

The FreeDict developers added phonetics for the headwords through txt2pho (a Text-to-Speech front end for the German inventories of the MBROLA speech synthesizer project).  The author of txt2pho (Thomas Portele) granted FreeDict permission to use the headword phonetics in the FreeDict dictionary.

If you do not have the appropriate fonts on your phone, then you may use the bitmap fonts supplied with the dictionary package.  Go to the Menu and select Settings -> Use Bitmap Font

The bitmap fonts were generated by the "BitmapFontGenerator" available from DictionaryforMIDs. The bitmap fonts were taken from the "Arial Unicode MS" font. The "Font Properties Extension" tool available from Microsoft shows this font has "editable embedding allowed":
"Fonts may be embedded in documents, but must only be installed temporarily on the remote system"