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    Thread: MeCab
Post: MeCab

Yes, it should work with EUC-JP. I used it with PHP on Windows once and just ran all input and output through mb_convert_encoding() to go from and to UTF-8, this worked fine. I recall the MeCab insta...
Savii Learning resources 15 2,251 2015-08-04, 5:35 am
    Thread: PDF version needed!
Post: PDF version needed!

qweasdzxc Wrote:I don't actually want the book (i'm not capable of reading it) but, I end up with corrupted text. --- I just googled it. If I open it in Firefox and change the text encoding to "Japane...
Savii Learning resources 10 1,346 2015-08-03, 9:38 am
    Thread: PDF version needed!
Post: PDF version needed!

I've got it already, sent OP the goods in a private message.
Savii Learning resources 10 1,346 2015-08-03, 6:58 am
    Thread: PDF version needed!
Post: PDF version needed!

I too gave up on Japanese publishers a long time ago, and spent some effort on alternative ways to get what I need. I can get you the file Bokusenou hinted from Perfect Dark, which is one excellent w...
Savii Learning resources 10 1,346 2015-08-03, 4:07 am
    Thread: Is there an RTK deck with a Japanese field like "いち番"?
Post: Is there an RTK deck with a Japanese field like "い...

wulfgar2 Wrote:Savii Wrote:Japanese Level Up's RTK deck has this in the いち番 form as a separate field. I checked that one already, and it has "one いち" as a keyword; a single field with both hiragana a...
Savii The Japanese language 11 1,581 2015-07-14, 2:55 pm
    Thread: Is there an RTK deck with a Japanese field like "いち番"?
Post: Is there an RTK deck with a Japanese field like "い...

Japanese Level Up's RTK deck has this in the いち番 form as a separate field. (site seems to be down at the moment, can't look up the exact post) I think I did a kind of mixin back then with my existing...
Savii The Japanese language 11 1,581 2015-07-14, 1:42 pm
    Thread: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k?
Post: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k?

Well it all depends on your learning style, if you're comfortable with the core series, going at a good pace and want to go for it you can shoot for the 10k and it'll bring you to a good starting poin...
Savii General discussion 38 6,405 2015-06-06, 3:20 pm
    Thread: SABU - dedicated App to learn from Anime/Drama
Post: SABU - dedicated App to learn from Anime/Drama

I've been looking for a player that can do even just a subset of this for a long time. Your features are exceedingly awesome and I would most certainly use it extensively... if it were available for A...
Savii Learning resources 44 9,308 2015-04-03, 7:23 am
    Thread: Would anybody be willing to fill out a survey about Anki?
Post: Would anybody be willing to fill out a survey abou...

WarawanaiNeko Wrote:I feel much the same as you do. Japanese has always been very difficult to me, and I might have given up had I not discovered SRS and the internet community. Japanese is such a big...
Savii Learning resources 9 1,704 2015-03-24, 1:37 pm
    Thread: Would anybody be willing to fill out a survey about Anki?
Post: Would anybody be willing to fill out a survey abou...

Submitted. One comment though. There are several questions related to whether Anki reduces anxiety/stress, which makes sense considering the focus on your survey, but I'd like to offer another angle. ...
Savii Learning resources 9 1,704 2015-03-24, 4:24 am
    Thread: Time for a new donation run for Fabrice!
Post: Time for a new donation run for Fabrice!

Donated 15 euros. When I think about it this site has been one of the most important resources to my Japanese study, along with a few textbooks (esp. JtMW) and Core. Not so much for the reviewing syst...
Savii Off topic 42 9,417 2015-03-19, 9:24 am
    Thread: What the hell do I tell customs? [CLOSED - duplicate]
Post: What the hell do I tell customs? [CLOSED - duplica...

I think I saw this exact topic being discussed before recently... Found it: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=12577 Oh, same author even. You could just add any new information to your origin...
Savii JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 3 1,406 2015-03-17, 3:39 pm
    Thread: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license
Post: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license

I don't have much to share in terms of decks (aside from one that can be downloaded in the topic linked below), but I'm putting some effort in creating up-to-date source materials for creating Core de...
Savii General discussion 80 18,138 2015-03-05, 5:55 pm
    Thread: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license
Post: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license

Whoever's behind this, it's absolutely pathetic. People have used the materials for years believing they were free (as in freedom) to use, loading the guns with legal threats at this point is a moral ...
Savii General discussion 80 18,138 2015-03-03, 11:28 am
    Thread: Is there an easier way to go through the failed kanji list?
Post: Is there an easier way to go through the failed ka...

You haven't specified which SRS you use. Anyhow, I have this in my Anki card template to automatically create Koohii links: Quote:<a href="http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/{{Heisig number}}">...
Savii General discussion 4 989 2015-02-22, 3:08 am
    Thread: Inappropriate stories
Post: Inappropriate stories

I think this feature is an excellent improvement and it makes me less hesitant to recommend this website to people of whom I expect they will not appreciate many heavily flagged stories (sometimes I a...
Savii Off topic 121 18,929 2015-01-24, 1:03 pm
    Thread: Raw manga difficult to find
Post: Raw manga difficult to find

vix86 Wrote:As Savii pointed out, you need a certain amount of "Buffer Space." I believe its termed something like Unity, and there are guides out there that can explain it. You'll have trouble gettin...
Savii Learning resources 11 7,796 2015-01-11, 4:03 am
    Thread: What happened to Rawscans?
Post: What happened to Rawscans?

Sites like these appear and disappear spontaneously. Rawscans being excellent for a DDL archive doesn't make it more immune to this effect. It may reappear or be gone forever. People with inside infor...
Savii Off topic 4 4,011 2015-01-11, 3:56 am
    Thread: Anime Games sale on Steam
Post: Anime Games sale on Steam

I second Recettear, very refreshing and a unique gameplay experience. I couldn't let go of it for at least a few days. Picking up Fairy Bloom Freesia, looks interesting! Thanks for the heads-up.
Savii Learning resources 4 1,180 2015-01-10, 4:25 pm
    Thread: Raw manga difficult to find
Post: Raw manga difficult to find

There was this really comprehensive website called rawscans which worked pretty well combined with something like JDownloader, but it's been down for some time now. There are other websites you can go...
Savii Learning resources 11 7,796 2015-01-10, 4:10 pm
    Thread: A は/が question
Post: A は/が question

This trips most people up. Here's a pretty good article about wa/ga: http://nihonshock.com/2010/02/particles-...wa-and-ga/
Savii The Japanese language 4 1,490 2014-12-03, 4:38 pm
    Thread: Translating pdf to text
Post: Translating pdf to text

If it's a scan (likely), you can't. Your only option is OCR (Optical Character Recognition). This works with limited accuracy. You can do the entire book as a batch and use it with Rikaichan or any ot...
Savii Learning resources 3 684 2014-03-05, 2:18 pm
    Thread: Manga translations
Post: Manga translations

I think the closest you'll get is simulreading a raw scan and a scanlation of the same manga. Both are available from a multitude of online sources. Oh, and some manga have a (physical) bilingual edit...
Savii Group study 3 1,238 2014-02-27, 1:54 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

yogert909 Wrote:Just wondering what people do if they have extra free time one day and want to study more without the increasing reviews on subsequent days. (...) What do you do? Reinforce the knowled...
Savii Learning resources 448 97,988 2014-02-22, 3:41 am
    Thread: tatoeba.org substitute
Post: tatoeba.org substitute

Vempele Wrote:The entire database is presumably available for download somewhere, but I can't check since tatoeba.org is down... That's right, it's called the "Tanaka Corpus". You can download a regul...
Savii Learning resources 7 1,428 2014-02-13, 11:45 am
    Thread: pop up dictionary for Mangas
Post: pop up dictionary for Mangas

Also, for Android: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11121 Not truly popup like KanjiTomo, probably because it's too CPU expensive for mobile devices, but still pretty close.
Savii Learning resources 4 1,429 2014-02-13, 5:19 am
    Thread: Amount of vocabulary
Post: Amount of vocabulary

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:egoplant Wrote:Not sure how that is supposed to work if you don't know how to pronounce the word. Have you been going under the notion that it's necessary to look up every sing...
Savii The Japanese language 85 18,790 2014-01-31, 2:30 pm
    Thread: Is RTK 3 necessary to read newspaper?
Post: Is RTK 3 necessary to read newspaper?

DrJones Wrote:RTK3 has some common kanji that aren't in RTK1, but it also has plenty of kanji that you'll only find in place and people's names. It also lacks some kanji that are actually quite common...
Savii Remembering the Kanji 10 4,702 2014-01-29, 1:32 pm
    Thread: Things to do beside RtK
Post: Things to do beside RtK

Stansfield123 Wrote:There is however a logical reason to not bother with grammar to any significant extent: grammar is best learned from written materials (materials written with Kanji). Kana only gra...
Savii The Japanese language 13 2,738 2014-01-26, 2:34 pm
    Thread: Kanji for fireworks (hanabi) noob question
Post: Kanji for fireworks (hanabi) noob question

hazwanium Wrote:wow i didn't know about this, japanese is even harder than i initially thought, i am completely demoralized right now lol Oh, there are probably much more "obstacles" you don't yet kno...
Savii The Japanese language 12 3,355 2014-01-24, 6:05 am