Monolingual popup dictionary?
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There's a program called StarDict which is a popup dictionary, like rikaichan, but you can use it outside of firefox, so I find it useful. However, there don't seem to be any J>J dictionaries on the website for that program, and I couldn't find any on google. Can anyone think of a way to get a J>J popup dictionary?
stardict website: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php
(Also, I kind of rely on rikaichan for reading things, so it'd be good if I could get a japanese popup dictionary to appeal to my laziness in looking things up by typing lol 
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Whatever you downloaded probably just has it stripped out, is an older edition which didn't have it to begin with, or your reader doesn't support it.
I never said that my EPWING version doesn't have color pictures 
For me Stardic doesn't work !
It seems that it can't recognize japanese characters.
Could anyone help me?
Last edited by jino123 (2009 July 23, 2:13 pm)
wahnfrieden wrote:
@IceCream I haven't been able to find anything, really. So I'm making my own. Though I'm first writing a dictionary server (for EPWING) so that you can use whatever dictionaries you want. That part is almost done actually, so I'm focusing now on an online SRS, after which I will add the Rikai-clone that can use the dictionary server, and then easily integrate with my SRS. This will all be usable locally or remotely on the web, without the restriction of using EDICT for everything, like other web services out there.
So will we be able to use any of our dictionaries just like rikaichan? In an internet browser? Wow, this sounds awesome! I can't believe you've got so far already 
@IceCream EPWING is the most common format for commercial Japanese dictionaries, like Kenkyusha and Genius or the monolingual ones. It will work with any of these, but I'll be adding special (automated) formatting for a couple of the more popular ones so that they are easier to use.
@bombpersons that's the goal eventually, but I have a lot of things to make before I do the Rikai clone. There are also some cross-site scripting issues with things like Rikai so I don't think I can do the Rikai part without a browser extension, unless it's just with documents that you've imported or discovered within my site (I plan on making the site a repository of good public domain Japanese texts). But even though the Rikai part is lower priority for me than the other things I'm working on now, I'm going to make my service's REST API public so that other people could pretty easily build a tool that hooks into my infrastructure.
I'm focusing on the browser now, but it's by no means limited to that, thanks to the REST infrastructure I'm developing. I'm going to make a small iPhone client soon after I get the SRS flashcards done, for example.
I have a year of school left, and not many classes, so I'll have loads of time to dedicate to this (it's actually my undergrad "thesis" project, so I'm committed to at least getting SOMETHING out the door ).
Last edited by wahnfrieden (2009 August 21, 9:21 am)
