Re: [Gjiten-general] Anybody home?

[Botond B. <gji...@si...>]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:09:29 +0200
Gregor Riepl <set...@fr...> wrote:

> Hello Ben
> 
> > Is the gjiten project still being developed?
> >
> > I'm interested in either joining the project or using the source code
> > of gjiten in another project.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I think Botond doesn't do much work on it any more.
> gjiten is very stable and has (IMHO) the features you'd expect from  
> an electronic Japanese dictionary, so that might not be a bad tink.
> I have written a Mac OS X "clone" of gjiten for daily use with almost  
> the same functionality (minus the kanji dictionary). I didn't release  
> it to the public though.
> Since the gjiten code relies heavily on glib/gtk+, I decided to use  
> sqlite3 as database search engine instead.
> I mainly use the Wadoku Jiten (German-Japanese), which is in the  
> process of being switched to a more powerful XML format. I was  
> considering implementing that too. On the other hand, I have no idea  
> the edict maintainers would be willing to switch, should the format  
> definition become (finally) finalized.
> 
> Regards,
> Gregor


Hello Gregor,

You might be already aware of it, but the edict dictionary data is already
XMLized in the JMDict project. I think the raw xml file is not suitable
for using it directly in the dictionary software for performance reasons,
so it should be transformed into something else, like you probably do it
with the sql interface.

Botond