Sunday, 30 June 2013

RAIMBAULT ROUILLE et Les 500 kanji (ellipses)


Raimbault and Rouillé in their book Les 500 kanji saw fit to throw in compounds made with kanji which are not found in any of the 3 indices to that book.  Vexing. In one case the font used makes a kanji difficult to make out (for its high price, the printer and typesetter have let down the user.)

Rather than rail against them, I have started some web pages for those who buy the book and run into these not infrequent vexations and a few errors that seem inexcusable for a mere 500 entries for 50$ ( with 1500 often vexing compounds chosen, it seems, on a whim.)

Is that ellipses or elisions ?




Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Wakan tool kanji tip


So I have copied a Japanese web page to my computer clipboard memory and now I have them displayed in Wakan using the "Character" menu choice for the clipboard content.  How do I now get a copy of any one of those unique and sorted kanji for a text search elsewhere ?

TIP : I display the UNICODE on the Wakan character details so I copy that 4-hex value and enter it into a CTRL-f search at http://kanji.aule-browser.com/henshall-sorted-urlencoded.html and very often get a hit and just copy that kanji from its row.

My next stop now that I have the kanji is often jisho.org

Why not just go to jisho and search by Unicode ? Because if I must do several kanji, I find that having the web page linked above open in a browser tab is simply faster - most often ... and the Henshall number is in plain view.




Tuesday, 23 April 2013

kanjidic2 scrolling kanji viewer take 2


The scrolling Curl viewer for kanjidic2 kanji (index,kanji,English transl) has been restored at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-all-indexed-curl.html

Use the find field or click in the app and then CTRL-F to search. The alternate mouse button (for me that is the left button) will bring up a context menu if you select text in the app.

I will add an async view with much more content as time and energy permit ( it will load in chunks of content in the background as well jump forward to retrieve and then display a "page" of content.)

At the moment the app does not remember where you were on a past visit.

To clear the app from memory, use the Curl control panel app view button (bottom right on that panel.)

The Curl browser plugin is at www.curl.com or www.curlap.com (Nihongo site.)

If you want this as a desktop or mobile app let me know (linux, mac or any Windows; Android or iOS.)