[JGloss] Re: Invalid Dictionary Files?

[Rolf L. <no...@no...>]

Roy wrote:

> The part I don't fully understand is why I am unable to use my old version
> and old dictionary files the way I was able to in the past?

The reason is that indeed the program would be able to work with the 
files but some changes have been introduced in checking for the format 
of the dictionary files when opening them.  This is necessary to decide 
whether or not a presented presumably-dictionary is indeed one.  Jgloss 
quite rightly will refuse to open non-dict files or dict-files in a 
format it does not support.  Apparently there are now some new bugs in 
the detection algorithm so that the program thinks the dict files are 
not of a valid format and aborts using these files.

> I tried saving the edict file as UTF-8 as you suggest and interestingly,
> while I'm now able to add the dictionary file without any errors, the
> translation window is unable to properly show the Japanese characters (no
> kanji, hiragana, katakana - just square boxes and western alpha-numeric
> text).  I tried saving edict in other formats (JIS, shift-JIS etc) but these
> other formats generate errors when I try to add the dictionary file.

This has nothing to do with the dict files but is a font issue.  Try to 
verify the settings in Edit - Preferences - Style.  There is also a 
button on the bottom where you can let jgloss auto-configure your fonts. 
  Michael also has some information on setting the correct font for Java 
at http://jgloss.sf.net.