Japanese and E-book readers: A guide

Mr_Gororo Wrote:...The only thing I'm missing now is a DE-JP dictionary (German-->Japanese) for a friend of mine..anyone know how to get a hold of one which works with the internal dicitonary look-up?

Have you had any luck finding one yet? If not...

Perhaps you could create your own kindle-friendly dictionary? If you go to http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan and download the 'Japanese - German' dictionary, you would have something to work with. It gives you an sqlite file named something like 'dict.sqlite' which you will find in Firefox's 'extension' folder.

You could then use the EN-JP dictionary you already have as a guide to figure out how to format the data in the sqlite file. Dump the data to your favorite editor or spreadsheet program, reformat it and save it to whatever format your Kindle is expecting and place it in the appropriate directory.

I recommend that you first create a small version with a few entries that you could test and tweak.

EDIT: I'm curious about the way Amazon's version of the JP-EN dictionary handles Unicode characters. Would you mind sharing a couple entries from the file that illustrate that?