ANN: Jishyo 0.1

[Rob Burns]

ANNOUNCE
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This is version 0.1 of Jishyo.


What is Jishyo?
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Jishyo is an English -> Japanese dictionary. Currently it only 
supports English queries. In the future I hope to add support for kana 
and kanji queries, as well as multi-radical lookups for kanji. Jishyo 
is based in large part on code from Jim Breen's xjdic. It also uses 
the dictionary data from the same software.


Features
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* 'exact', 'similar', and 'related' queries, that return successively 
greater numbers of results.
* localized for Thai and Japanese.


Where can I get Jishyo?
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You can download the source code from 
http://www.eskimo.com/~pburns/Dictionaries/


Dependencies
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* a recent version of gnustep-core (http://www.gnustep.org/)
* a Japanese font.

With current versions of GNUstep, your default system font will need 
to support Japanese characters. Alternatively, you could try Alexander 
Malmberg's font substitution patch at:

http://web.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/font_substitution_1.1.patch

A short explanation for using the patch can be found at:

http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/I18n#Current_Status_2


Thanks
Rob