Japanese/English dictionary application

0. Contents

This is the documentation of japkanji-1.6.4.
   1. Purpose
      1.1. Tools
         1.1.1. Dictionary
         1.1.2. Kanji information
         1.1.3. Unicode map
      1.2. Functions
   2. Copying
   3. HTML code
   4. Manual
   5. Requirements
   6. Downloading

1. Purpose

1.1. Tools

Several japanese related tools.

1.1.1. Dictionary

See an example of the application installation working at http://kanjidict.stc.cx/dict.

1.1.2. Kanji information

Provides varius information about kanji, like different book indices etc, and search methods.

See an example of the application installation working at http://kanjidict.stc.cx/search.

1.1.3. Unicode map

Allows you to pick up regions of UNICODE to display in your web browser.

See an example of the application installation working at http://kanjidict.stc.cx/unicodemap.

1.2. Functions

These small features written in php are included:

2. Copying

These applications have been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and are being distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL).
However, the dictionaries come with different licenses. They all have been downloaded from the home page of the EDICT project.
Here is a list of the dictionaries and their licenses:

3. HTML code

If what you want is not a local copy of the dictionary application but just a piece of html code to put on your web page, here's some. Replace "unihtml" with the character set of your web page or leave it like it is.

<form method=GET action="http://kanjidict.stc.cx/">
 <input type=hidden name="inset" value="unihtml">
 <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr>
  <td width=125>&#26085;&#26412;&#35486;&#25506;&#12377;<br><small>(nihongo sagasu)</small>:
  <td valign=top><input type=text name=s size=20>
  <td valign=top><input type=submit value="Go">
 </tr></table>
</form>

4. Manual

To be written.

5. Requirements

Japkanji requires MySQL and PHP to run; Kakasi and GNU Recode for database generation, Perl for configuration, charconv for optional &inset -parameter handling, and wget for updating the dictionary files from the EDICT master site.
GNU Make is also required.

6. Downloading

The official home page of japkanji is at http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/japkanji.html.
Check there for new versions.

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