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Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: halx on September 27, 2004, 10:16:10 pm

I'd like to announce the availability of KanjiDic, ENAMDICT, and Japanese example sentences converted to EPWING format.  All dictionaries may be viewed with zten (1 (http://wiki.gohome.org/zten/), 2 (http://ebsnap.lkj.jp/zaurus/)) or similar programs based on EB library (http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/eb/index.html) (all dictionaries compressed with ebzip).  See for example EBView (http://ebview.sourceforge.net/).

Find more information and download links on my Zaurus page (http://www.hloeffler.info/zaurus/).

Thanks to Jim Breen (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html) for both making available the dictionaries and for hosting the EPWING files.

Hannes Loeffler.

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: ShiroiKuma on September 28, 2004, 05:18:20 am

Hi:

Can you tell me how you converted Enamdic to EPWing format? What are the steps?

I went to the FreePwin site you mention in an earlier post, but it's only got source for download, no primer on steps how to convert a file to EPWing format.

I want to convert some other language dictionaries, but need a step-by-step.

Thanks.

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: Mukei on September 28, 2004, 06:01:54 am

Hello,
I'd like to get Kojien too... I have it for PC but how can I put it on my Zaurus for Zten??

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: jamesannan on September 28, 2004, 06:53:53 am

Thanks so much for your efforts. That is really really really really useful!

Thanks,

James

PS Thanks!

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: halx on September 28, 2004, 08:56:05 pm

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Can you tell me how you converted Enamdic to EPWing format? What are the steps?

I went to the FreePwin site you mention in an earlier post, but it's only got source for download, no primer on steps how to convert a file to EPWing format.

Well, there is some documentation... in Japanese, of course  

If you know enough Perl you should be able to figure it out by yourself.  It's not that difficult.

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: halx on September 28, 2004, 09:10:54 pm

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Hello,
I'd like to get Kojien too... I have it for PC but how can I put it on my Zaurus for Zten??

If you understand Japanese sufficiently this page (http://www.ikushimo.com/edic/epkojienconvert.html) might help.  According to this page you need the EB library (actually the utilities to manipulate the catalog file) on your "PC".

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: ShiroiKuma on September 30, 2004, 09:06:42 am

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Well, there is some documentation... in Japanese, of course 

If you know enough Perl you should be able to figure it out by yourself. It's not that difficult.

I don't know Perl, but I can try to see if I understand anything.

Basically, I'm trying to convert a plain-text Czech-English dictionary file, so nothing fancy...

Could you tell me which page exactly is the conversion information at, I seem to be searching in vain.

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: halx on September 30, 2004, 10:15:43 am

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I don't know Perl, but I can try to see if I understand anything.

Basically, I'm trying to convert a plain-text Czech-English dictionary file, so nothing fancy...

Could you tell me which page exactly is the conversion information at, I seem to be searching in vain.

Do you know anything about computer programming?  Your file might not be fancy but you should consider the following.  To extract relevant data you have to know at least a little bit about text processing/regular expressions.  Your text is in Czech, so it contains accented characters.  You know how to convert them to ASCII?  The EUC encoding used in the JIS X 4081 is not very useful for non-Japanese text (except ASCII of course).  Either you convert or use gaiji (bitmaps) which are certainly more cumbersome I guess.

If your really want to know the documentation (http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/freepwing/doc/index.html) is here but I think it's still easier to learn form the Perl scripts, e.g. the one for EDICT.

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: Stubear on September 30, 2004, 11:47:06 am

Halx,

while your on a run, would it be possible to request the life-sci dictionary too?

TIA

Stu

Title: ANN: KanjiDic/ENAMDICT/example sentences
Post by: ShiroiKuma on October 01, 2004, 03:34:22 am

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you have to know at least a little bit about text processing/regular expressions. Your text is in Czech, so it contains accented characters. You know how to convert them to ASCII? The EUC encoding used in the JIS X 4081 is not very useful for non-Japanese text (except ASCII of course). Either you convert or use gaiji (bitmaps) which are certainly more cumbersome I guess.

Well, I guess I'll give up on this here then.

Do you know if there's any other dictionary utility for the Zaurus for which it is easy to creaty simple dictionaries from utf8 files?

Thanks.