Add Words to iPhone Dictionary File

[tatum]

Add words to the iPhone's built-in dictionary file.

This script requires Perl to be installed. Add the CoreDev repo to Cydia to install Perl.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# This program will add words to the iPhone word database.
# Created by tatum, 04/02/2009

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# Define vars #
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$file = "/private/var/mobile/Library/Keyboard/dynamic-text.dat";

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# Usage #
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# If no args given, or "-h", print usage

if (@ARGV == 0 or $ARGV[0] eq '-h') {
	&usage;
}

sub usage {

print <<EOF;

Usage:

  dic -a <word> <another word>...	- Adds <words> to iPhone dictionary file
  dic -h							 - Displays this message

EOF
	exit 1;
}

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# Code #
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if (($ARGV[0] eq "-a") && (@ARGV >= 2)) {
	open(DICT, ">>$file") or die "Unable to open '$file': $!\n";
	binmode DICT;
	@current = <DICT>;
	shift (@ARGV);
	foreach $word (@ARGV) {
		unless (grep(/^$word$/, @current)) {
			print DICT $word;
		} else { 
			die "\n'$word' already exists in '$file'.\n"; 
		}
	}
close(DICT);

} else {
&usage;
}

Example:

dic -a word1 word2 word3

[NeoNightmareX]

Could this also be used to change "LOL" to "lol"?

[tatum]

Could this also be used to change "LOL" to "lol"?

No. Try "haha" instead.

[BrandonandMaria]

well this is something I would like BUT, I want to know if I can change the chinese handwriting dictionary to english?? Is that possible??

[tatum]

well this is something I would like BUT, I want to know if I can change the chinese handwriting dictionary to english?? Is that possible??

I am not sure. Sorry.

[shoohorn0plenty]

I would really like to teach my iPhone naughty words, but this method is way over my head.

Telling someone to duck off is getting be almost as embarrassing as telling one of my buddies that I have to go take a shot.

[wasutton3]

hey i was looking at this for a potential iphone i might be getting but i have one quick question, couldnt you just edit the dynamic-text.dat file in
%user/private/var/mobile/Library/Keyboard ? i am assuming that its jailbroken and you can ssh into the iphone.

[phreakwenci]

I would really like to teach my iPhone naughty words, but this method is way over my head.

Telling someone to duck off is getting be almost as embarrassing as telling one of my buddies that I have to go take a shot.

I found away around that in a post on lifehacker.com Just create a new contact named Bad Words and in the last name add all the words you want to keep the iphone from correcting, I also added stuff like "FTW WTF ROFL AFAIK FWIW" etc... and of course a superflous amount of foul language. Works for me!

[blkcadi]

I found away around that in a post on lifehacker.com Just create a new contact named Bad Words and in the last name add all the words you want to keep the iphone from correcting, I also added stuff like "FTW WTF ROFL AFAIK FWIW" etc... and of course a superflous amount of foul language. Works for me!

Very cool. Auto correct is more that just a minor inconvenience for me but for people that can't handle it , this rox. Nice job.

[shoohorn0plenty]

I found away around that in a post on lifehacker.com Just create a new contact named Bad Words and in the last name add all the words you want to keep the iphone from correcting, I also added stuff like "FTW WTF ROFL AFAIK FWIW" etc... and of course a superflous amount of foul language. Works for me!

This works!
Thanks!

[West-]

This works!
Thanks!

I know this post is old, but I came across it and wanted to let people know it works if you just do it in Notes too!

[maelcum]

Hey,

could it be that the file format changed in any of the firware updates?
When I look at the file I'll see a format like this:
^@wordA^@wordB^@wordC^@wordD
Between any word there is a delimiter "^@".

When I call up the perl-Script and add some words, they show up right after each other, no delimiter, like:
wordAwordBwordCwordD

Any insight?