From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: V25 of EDICT (25,300 entries) now released
Organization: (none)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:02:18 GMT

Yes, V25 has finally been made public and is available for ftp or ftpmail
or whatever from /pub/Nihongo on monu6.cc.monash.edu.au. If you don't
know what edict is: it is a public domain Japanese/English dictionary file.
Get the "edict.doc" file and read about it.

As before, EDICT is available as three files: edict (plain text), 
edict.zoo (has the edict.jdx index file included for JDIC/JREADER users)
and edict.Z.

The "jis1detl.lst" and "jis2detl.lst" files on monu6 have been withdrawn
and replaced with a single file "kanjidic" (and kanjidic.Z).


-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  

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Date: 9 Aug 92 23:29:04 GMT
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Displaying Kanji from DOS Applications
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,soc.culture.japan

aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu (Ahmed Abd-Allah) writes:

>Our software is written in C/C++ and we are looking for code 
>libraries or whatever that allow us to print japanese strings 
>from within our application.  I am very vaguely familiar with
>something called "jis" which I think is a standard way of 
>encoding japanese characters, but I'd appreciate any info on that
>as well.  

My advice for kanji display neophytes is to get and read:

(a) "japan.inf"
(b) the "kd" source code (in kd100.arc). 

Both are in /pub/Nihongo on monu6.cc.monash.edu.au

-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  

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Date: 10 Aug 92 02:12:26 GMT
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: XJDIC (X11 port of JDIC/JREADER) released
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,soc.culture.japan

Yes, after what I hope is adequate in-house and beta-testing XJDIC is being 
turned loose. I hope it is of interest/use to all you people out there
using kterm etc. in Unix environments.

Here is the blurb_file "xjdic.inf":

X J D I C   V1.0 (This document is extracted from xjdic.man & xjdic.install)

XJDIC  is an electronic Japanese-English dictionary program designed to operate 
in the X11 window environment with  Japanese  input  and  output  support  from 
programs  such  as  kterm and kinput, or from from the environment itself (e.g. 
aixterm with Japanese language enabled).  It is based on JDIC & JREADER which 
were developed to run under MS-DOS on IBM PCs or clones. 

XJDIC functions as: 
(a)  an  English  to  Japanese  dictionary  (eiwa  jiten),  searching  for  and 
displaying entries for key-words entered in English; 
(b) a Japanese to English dictionary (waei jiten), searching for and displaying 
entries for keywords  or  phrases  entered  in  Japanese  (kanji,  hiragana  or 
katakana); 
(c) a Japanese-English Character dictionary (kanei jiten), capable of selecting 
kanji characters by JIS code, radical, stroke count, Nelson Index number or 
reading,  and displaying compounds containing that kanji. 

XJDIC depends for its performance on a pair of dictionary files; a Japanese <-> 
English dictionary and a Kanji dictionary, and a file of radicals.  It has been 
designed to work with the EDICT dictionary,  which is the author's extension of 
MOKE's EDICT,  and the KANJIDIC character  dictionary  file,  compiled  by  the 
author from various sources.  EDICT has now over 25,000 entries, while KANJIDIC 
has  an  entry  for  each  of the JIS1 and JIS2 kanji.  The file of radicals is 
RADICALS.TM, compiled by Theresa Martin for the earlier JDIC program 

See the document XJDIC.INSTALL for information on compiling the  XJDIC  program 
and setting up the dictionary files and index files. You will need to obtain
and unpack three archive files: xjdic.tar.Z, edict.Z and kanjidic.Z. At present
these are available on /pub/Nihongo on monu6.cc.monash.edu.au.

-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au