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Chapter 11: Dictionaries and Dictionary Software
Frontend soware for EPWING electronic dictionariesTable 11-11.
Software Platforms Availability
CDROM2 MS-DOS and Unix http://www.nerimadors.or.jp/~jiro/cdrom2/
CeDar Mac OS and Mac OS X http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA004654/cedar/
DDwin Windows http://homepage2.nifty.com/ddwin/
EBPocket/EBWin Windows http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~h_ishida/EBPocket.html
EBView Linux and Windows http://ebview.sourceforge.net/
Jamming Mac OS X and Windows http://dicwizard.jp/jamming.html
(kamonosu)
Mac OS X http://homepage2.nifty.com/andom/kamonos.html
(kotonoko)
Mac OS X http://www.afternooncafe.jp/kotonoko/
One of the best is called Jamming, also available as Jamming Light, both of which serve as
a frontend not only to disk-based dictionaries, but also for dictionaries of other formats.
Both are available for Windows and Mac OS X.
Dictionary Files
Jim Breen deserves extra special mention here, because he has managed and coordinated
the development of several very useful machine-readable dictionary les for Japanese:
EDICT, ENAMDICT, KANJIDIC, KANJD212, and so on. More recently, he has combined
and XML-ized some of them into newer and improved dictionary les: JMdict, JMnedict,
and KANJIDIC2. In 1999, the EDICT data was placed into a database format that was
capable of holding richer and more complex content. From this database, both EDICT
and ...