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Mac OSX Default Japanese Dictionary - kodorakun - 2011-09-19
The default dictionaries in OSX as pretty sweet (J-E, J-J, etc) but my only complain is that you can't search by kanji as starting a word, within a word, or at the end of a word (and by "word" I mean compound...). Has anyone thought about this problem? Is there a solution native to OSX? An option I'm missing? Thanks for any feedback.
K.
Mac OSX Default Japanese Dictionary - Nesetoru - 2011-09-19
You can actually search kanji starting a word in the OSX Dictionary. There's also an option in my OSX EPWING dictionary to search for kanji which start or end a compound.
Mac OSX Default Japanese Dictionary - Bokusenou - 2011-09-19
I recommend using EPWING dics if you want to have advanced search options. The choice of dictionaries is better as well.
Mac OSX Default Japanese Dictionary - kodorakun - 2011-09-19
Well I've looked into using some of the EPWing dictionaries but I've been mostly disappointed with the software -- it seems buggy most of the time and prone to crashes. OSX's dictionary has a nice functional interface and is satisfactory for all purposes other than being limited to search with kanji as the start of a compound.
If you recommend any specific OSX epwing software I'll give it another shot.
Mac OSX Default Japanese Dictionary - Bokusenou - 2011-09-19
Hmm, that's weird. [url="http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~h_ishida/MacOS/Mac.html']EBMac[/url], Qolibri, Kotonoko, and Manabi Dictionary all work fine for me on Snow Leopard, with the first two being my favorites. I mainly like EPWING dictionaries so much, because there are EPWING viewers for all the major OSs and smartphones, so I can take my dictionaries where ever I am, and I can search all my five kokugo dics, and Kenkyuusha's "Green goddess" dictionary all at once. ^-^