Showing posts with label English dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English dictionary. Show all posts

Saturday 11 August 2012

Edict2 J-E Dictionary

The Curl version of Edict2 is now testing on-line and as a desktop app (where it is very fast.)

Today added wildcard behavior for single kanji ( 来*) and behavior to roll backwards through the dictionary (the aim is no to have the dictionary in memory and to use no indices.)

Here is a snapshot of how things look today after a search on 遠来 :






From the scroll bar you can see we have about one "page" loaded.

The button bottom left rolls in the previous 2000 entries. Tomorrow: partial matches logic.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Edict2 in plain HTML (no scripts, frames etc)

http://kanji.aule-browser.com/edict2-kanji-sliced-1-9.html

Edict2 rendered as 9 kanji pages and 3 katakana pages in plain HTML-only. These pages offer the ability to browse this extensive Japanese-English dictionary on-line.





Below is an example page:
That page is using the free HanMinA font which adds a few seconds to the initial download.


Look-up widgets to follow for HTML+JavaScript and HTML+Curl pages.