Jarvik7 Wrote:I've never had any problems opening any epwing in kotonoko, including ones I just copied directly from the CD/DVD. There is no copy protection that I know of.

Perhaps whatever viewer you're using is an older version that doesn't support ebzip or newer versions of the epwing spec.

I doubt that. He's using the same version as me (ebview from ubuntu repositories).

I'm starting to wonder if it's not something with me running 64 bit Jaunty. :: sigh :: Nothing runs on 64 bit. Quite a sacrifice for the speed.

Heh, didn't assume I'd be the only regular Windows user in this thread (I actually have Ubuntu installed but hardly ever use it). But yeah, I make no guarantees on that file working with something other than EBWin, sorry...

For anyone thinking about trying it, EBWin doesn't run under Wine. :/

And harhol, don't worry about it. You're generous enough for posting the file I'll just continue to use my Canon wordtank, I guess.

Update on my problems:
By mounting the ISO and copying manually from the mounted CD, I could finally get ebview to read the dictionary from a folder instead of the CD.

So that's the tip for anyone who is sick of mounting a CD each time: Mount it and copy from it. Do NOT open the .iso in an archive manager, for some reason copying from the archive doesn't work in the same way.

sethg Wrote:For anyone thinking about trying it, EBWin doesn't run under Wine. :/

Did you try giving Wine some dlls from Windows (check the log for which one it errored out on)? Doing that always fixes any apps I have trouble with.

Jarvik7 Wrote:

sethg Wrote:For anyone thinking about trying it, EBWin doesn't run under Wine. :/

Did you try giving Wine some dlls from Windows (check the log for which one it errored out on)? Doing that always fixes any apps I have trouble with.

Honestly, I've never used Wine. Can you kind give a small tutorial? I really want to get this working.

Does anyone use a Mac EPWING reader? I have tried for over a week now to try and install kenkyuusha with JEdict (and kotonoko too) for the Mac, with no success. I thought it was a problem with the files I downloaded possibly, but I can't get it working with the file that was uploaded in this thread either.

I try to install the CATALOGS file but it keeps telling me that it doesn't recognise that file type.

Anyone able to help me out here?

sethg Wrote:Honestly, I've never used Wine. Can you kind give a small tutorial? I really want to get this working.

I use Wine (actually Crossover) on OSX, so I'm afraid I can offer you no help on linux.

blackmacros: KOTONOKO is what I use and it works fine on everything I've thrown at it. What you need to be careful about is that an EPWING dictionary is not just the CATALOGS file, it is the entire directory structure. Make sure to unzip keeping the structure intact and open the root of that structure in kotonoko.

Jarvik7 Wrote:

sethg Wrote:Honestly, I've never used Wine. Can you kind give a small tutorial? I really want to get this working.

I use Wine (actually Crossover) on OSX, so I'm afraid I can offer you no help on linux.

blackmacros: KOTONOKO is what I use and it works fine on everything I've thrown at it. What you need to be careful about is that an EPWING dictionary is not just the CATALOGS file, it is the entire directory structure. Make sure to unzip keeping the structure intact and open the root of that structure in kotonoko.

Well I downloaded the file that was uploaded, unzipped it, and unzipped the kenkyuusha dictionary that was inside that. I didn't do anything else to modify file structure or anything. What should I be doing next if I was, for example, using kotonoko?

Edit: Managed to get it working with Kotonoko by double clicking the whole folder when I was adding the dictionary. Didn't realise you could do that. Still can't get it working in JEdict though.

I got another sentence from the KO list that is flagged as incorrect:
彼女は三人の子を育てました。 She brought up three children.

かのじょ は さんにん の こ を そだてました

Whats the mistake?
Besides, the pronounciation is different when you click on the sentence. On the sentence list it was jin, clicking on the sentence makes it nin. Why two versions.. *confused* it should be nin right?
Is there a list of mistakes somewhere?
o_o

No other mistake than じん. Indeed, it should be にん.

sethg Wrote:

Jarvik7 Wrote:

sethg Wrote:For anyone thinking about trying it, EBWin doesn't run under Wine. :/

Did you try giving Wine some dlls from Windows (check the log for which one it errored out on)? Doing that always fixes any apps I have trouble with.

Honestly, I've never used Wine. Can you kind give a small tutorial? I really want to get this working.

OK, I gave it a shot. Basically I just ran it from the prompt and there's one missing DLL, and in one DLL some JIS conversion function is missing, so that's the problem. I couldn't make it work from any free DLLs, but if you have Windows copy mfc42u.dll and msvcrt.dll from windows\system32 to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. It runs fine, but the font is all broken (little square boxes, like the font is missing or something). The window title font is correct and in Japanese, and the English is fine as well.

EDIT: Duh, that's because the Japanese font is set to Tahoma. Once it's running go to View->Options and change Japanese font to an actual Japanese font. I just set mine to Kochi Mincho and it's all happy now.

EDIT2: The dictionary names still appears as boxes, can't find an option to fix that.

blackmacros Wrote:Edit: Managed to get it working with Kotonoko by double clicking the whole folder when I was adding the dictionary. Didn't realise you could do that. Still can't get it working in JEdict though.

This was a while ago so you might have found out by yourself, but I just spent some time trying to install another dictionary in JEdict, only to realize that you need to register to do that:

Quote:Register Information

This program is $25 shareware.
Once registered, you can use additional dictionaries.
Only two dictionaries are available for unregistered users.

I'll be using kotonoko and the Apple dictionary application mostly anyway.