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Nihongo Benkyo

Nihongo Benkyo is a Japanese dictionary and learning tool.

Nihongo Benkyo:

• Is available for Windows, Linux and other Unix operating systems.
• Does not require any installation on Windows: unzip, it works!
• Can be put on an usb key drive and brought everywhere!
• Imports JMDict, a word dictionary with a lot of interesting metadata.
• Imports JMnedict, a proper name dictionary.
• Imports EDICT, a format in which you can find many specialized dictionaries (science, computing, etc).
• Imports Kanjidic2, a kanji dictionary with over 10,000 entries.
• Finds words from Japanese (kanji, kana, romaji) or from a translation.
• Can search words with wildcards (* and ?).
• Lists results in a table for quick overview.
• Shows further details about a selected result (part of speech, similar words, dialect...).
• Scans selection from other applications.
• Keeps an history of searched words so you can go back and go forward easily.
• Includes interface translations for several languages.

Requirements

    Ruby >= 1.8.0:              http://www.ruby-lang.org
    GTK+ >= 2.6:                http://www.gnome.org
    libxml2 >= 2.6.22 [**]:     http://www.xmlsoft.org
    Ruby-GetText >= 0.6.1:      http://ponx.s5.xrea.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html
    Ruby-GNOME2 >= 0.14.1 [*]:  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp
    libsqlite3 >= 3.2.1:        http://www.sqlite.org         
    Sqlite3/Ruby >= 1.1.0:      http://rubyforge.org/projects/sqlite-ruby/
    Intltool:                   http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fintltool

[*]: Required libraries are: Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/Gtk2 and Ruby/GdkPixbuf2. [**]: Only required if you want the import facility.

Install

• With the import facility:

        $ ruby setup.rb config
        $ ruby setup.rb setup
        ($ su)
        # ruby setup.rb install

• Without the import facility:

        ($ su)
        # ruby setup.rb all --without-ext

Data

See http://www.nihongobenkyo.org for data to use with Nihongo Benkyo.

Usage

$ nihongobenkyo

FAQ

• How to upgrade to version 0.3 ?

First delete ~/.nihongobenkyo/ and then proceed to the install.

• How to load automatically SCIM with Nihongo Benkyo ?

$ GTK_IM_MODULE=scim nihongobenkyo

License

Nihongo Benkyo is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the COPYING file for more information.