Wow, so I just discovered Rikaisama and installed it. Being kind of a newb to a lot of this stuff, I had never heard of EPWING before. Please humor me because I got really confused in trying to figure this out via net searching.
Is it possible to download/buy any of the EPWING dictionaries in such a way that I can use them with Rikaisama on a mac?

I'd love the 4 shown in the EPWING screen capture for Rikaisama. Out of luck?



(Terribly sorry if this has been asked before. I genuinely couldn't figure out the answer from what I turned up via searching here and elsewhere.)

@Splatted, franciscobc84, gnyffel:
Thanks for the logs.

@Tori-kun:
1) No on URL shortening.
2) Rikaisama already supports monolingual EPWING dictionaries.

@lisbet:
Rikaisama's EPWING feature doesn't work on Mac. Asriel did release a Mac version for a previous version of Rikaisama.

Last edited by cb4960 (2012 January 14, 12:35 pm)

Not sure if it was caused by one of the latest updates, but some of the save format tokens seems to be acting strange now.
$d occasionally returns the highlighted term instead of the dictionary form (just like $h) and the filename returned by $a presents the same problem (the audio file is actually saved correctly as hiragana - kanji.mp3).
This seems to always happen with words that are in hiragana in the original text and have a dictionary entry that uses kanji. Not sure if it happens in other cases as well.

So if I highlight the term ひつよう and save I get:
$d = ひつよう (should be 必要)
$a = ひつよう - ひつよう.mp3 (should be ひつよう - 必要.mp3)
and the audio file is saved as ひつよう - 必要.mp3 (and anki won't find it)

if I highlight the term ヒツヨウ and save, it works correctly as I get:
$d = 必要   
$a = ひつよう - 必要.mp3
and the audio file is saved as ひつよう - 必要.mp3

Checking some cards I made around July it seems that this problem was not present, but I'm not sure which version I was running at the time. Currently I'm running the latest version of rikaisama on ff9.

As always, thanks for your wonderful work, rikaisama and the other tools you shared with the community make it so much easier to study Japanese that it almost feels like cheating

Last edited by Seizar (2012 January 14, 3:04 pm)

@cb: How can I save both the meaning from f.e. the German/English dictionary into the 'Meaning' field and the definition given from another EPWING dictionary at the same time?! Did I miss something or do I use a version that's too old? :D

@Seizar,
Thanks for the detailed bug report.

@Splatted,
Glad it works for you now!

@Tori-kun,
Ah, I get it now. I'll add it to the wishlist.

dtcamero wrote:

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note this gives you rikaisama v.13.2ish... only 3 epwing options, etc...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3BHUFJ4V

open the "installation.docx" file first for instructions

Thank you so much! One hiccup when I was opening the .xpi file with Firefox- I got a "this plugin is not compatible with Firefox 9.0.1" error- not surprising if it's an older version of rikaisama. Any workarounds?"*
Cheers for the help!


*Apart from downgrading my Firefox- I rather like how much faster v.9 is.

Last edited by lisbet (2012 January 16, 11:06 am)

dtcamero wrote:

dtcamero wrote:

you also probably need the compatability reporter thing from Nestor's post...

firefox compatability reporter
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/a … -reporter/

this should work

D'oh, sorry about missing that in your original post.
It works!!!!
Hallelujah! 
I tried it with three EPWING dictionaries I have, and am really jazzed to be able to use them with Firefox now.

Thanks a million!

Excellent! My EPWING Sanseido works beautifully now on the Mac... but my Kôjien doesn't. It always says "Entry not found."

I suspect my problem is that I have a Kôjien edition with a Chûjiten thrown in.  Both originally came on a mini-CD for my good old Sony electronic dictionary, but there's only one CATALOG file on the CD ... so when copied to my HD, the paths  look like this:

/KOJIEN/catalog
/KOJIEN/language
/KOJIEN/welcome
/KOJIEN/CHUJITEN/sound
/KOJIEN/CHUJITEN/start
/KOJIEN/KOUJIEN/language
/KOJIEN/KOUJIEN/sound
/KOJIEN/KOUJIEN/start

Where caps denote folders, small letters denote files.

Any ideas?

Irixmark wrote:

OK, no takers. It's not like I need the Kôjien anyway with the Sanseido.

But can anyone upload the Mac Rikaisama pack again, now that Megaupload is gone? (two weeks after I bought a two-year membership for $80...)

Here you go, enjoy. ^-^

Last edited by Bokusenou (2012 January 20, 4:54 pm)

is there a way to create cards from multiple dictionaries at once? for example, could I save the sanseido's Japanese definitions with rikaichan's English definitions in Anki's real-time importer at the same time?

Hashiriya wrote:

is there a way to create cards from multiple dictionaries at once? for example, could I save the sanseido's Japanese definitions with rikaichan's English definitions in Anki's real-time importer at the same time?

No, but it's on the wishlist.

You do have that folder, but if you're running Lion, you'll need to know this:

http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/ … _lion.html

It took me a while to figure out what was wrong with my EPWING dictionaries and it turns out it was the Japanese characters in the path name... It would be nice if Rikaisama would just say "Hey dummy, I can't find the dictionary."

Anyway, this looks great, are there any future plans to somehow allow for recursive lookups within a dictionary definition? I guess I can use the "save to file" feature for something similar for now. (Actually, I guess this works just fine.)

Is there any way to have it for the English dictionary to default to "hide definition" and "not-hide" for Sanseido mode? It's very annoying to toggle these when I just want the quick reading lookups on the English dictionary but don't want the English definitions.

Also, if dictionary hasn't changed, it would be nice if it could temporarily buffer the last X number of dictionary lookups. This would be especially useful for Sanseido mode, so if you mouse over something then re-mouse over it, it doesn't have to hit the slow server each time. This would also would help with EPWING, since they aren't exactly the fastest lookups either.

Well, that's my 2 円. Keep up the awesome work cb4960.