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Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: rolf on August 27, 2006, 02:49:32 pm

Hi,

openembedded.org and thus OpenZaurus does include input methods for the Japanese language now.  

I have uploaded ipk for the collie (SL-5500) at the gakusei community (http://gakusei.sf.net) for those who do not want to compile themselves.  Both keyboard and handwriting recognition input are available as well as dependencies which can not be fulfilled from the official feeds.

Try them out, have fun and let me know if you find any bugs.  If I find out how to compile for other machines without breaking my collie setup, I will release ipk for other machines as well.

Ciao

Rolf


Direct link to download page of gakusei.sf.net (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141800)

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: rolf on August 27, 2006, 03:46:41 pm

Here are some screenshots for the more optically-inclined  

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The software is zten, a dictionary lookup software since I use my Z mainly as a portable Japanese <-> German <-> English dictionary.

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: rolf on October 21, 2006, 07:37:41 am

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I have uploaded ipk for the collie (SL-5500) at the gakusei community (http://gakusei.sf.net) for those who do not want to compile themselves.

Actually, with the exception of the libqpe library, these ipk are device agnostic and thus should run on any Z with OpenZaurus 3.5.4.  Regards.  But as usual, no warranties, make backups!

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: matthis on October 21, 2006, 08:30:57 pm

WOOOW!!! Thanks you for the excellent work!! This is really amazing.
How is memory usage? i.e. would it work on a device with only 32M of memory?

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: rolf on October 22, 2006, 10:54:01 am

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WOOOW!!! Thanks you for the excellent work!! This is really amazing.

I am glad you like it.  Would be nice if many people started using this stuff.

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How is memory usage? i.e. would it work on a device with only 32M of memory?

Not owning such a device I cannot say, of course.  But just checked my collie and memory usage is around 16MB so I think you should be safe.  But, don't blame me if this eats your cat ;-)  Anyways, I thought you have a C-1000?  Let me know if this works on your SL-5500D.

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: Snappy on November 13, 2006, 08:04:06 am

Hmmm .... does this support Chinese? 8) Would be a charm if it did! 8)

Title: Japanese Input On Opie
Post by: rolf on November 13, 2006, 08:20:11 am

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Hmmm .... does this support Chinese? 8) Would be a charm if it did! 8)
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Hi Snappy,

thank you for your question.

Not sure if it does.  I guess keyboard-based stuff will not work since you enter the Japanese transcription and convert then.  nunome might work to a certain extent for you since drawing many character are the same in Chinese and in Japanese.  That being said, I know there are differences in characters from Japanese to Chinese.  Not sure if nunome will deal with that nicely.  I doubt it.

I just picked up learning Chinese.  So I am interested in Chinese input as well.  But I have never used it so far.  I would not even know what packages to install on my desktop.  Maybe we can work together to make this happen?

BTW, the equivalent to [a href=\"http://gakusei.sf.net]http://gakusei.sf.net[/url] is http://xuesheng.sf.net (http://xuesheng.sf.net).  So far, there is nothing on it, though.  Eventually, I want to make xuesheng into a community of learners of Chinese just like gakusei.

Regards

Rolf