Re: [edict-jmdict] OT: epwing format

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@*********>]

On 13/02/2008, Darren Cook <darren@dcook.org> wrote:

> Not directly related to jmdict, but does anyone know of any tools (*) to
>  dump all the data from an epwing dictionary into some kind of text
>  format (e.g. csv, xml, edict).

The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that I have some
code I have used on occasions to hack into EB/Epwing files with varying
levels of success. ISTR each time I had to modify it a lot according to
quirks in the file, and I could never find a sound way to start off, so
I'd have to poke around in a dump to find the right spot to do an fseek()
to. I'll email them to you, but I doubt they'll be much use.

>  I started reading the source for EB library, and despite it having
>  comments in English I quickly realized that it was a major job and
>  wondered if there was a better way?

My experience too. I feel it should simply be a matter of firing up the
EB Library. Does the source of EBView help?  (Hmmmm. I looked at it. It's
heavy going.)

>  P.S. Or from PDIC format into some text format? I've seen some articles
>  mentioning utilities to convert epwing to pdic. (Though I've not tracked
>  down any software yet: they all seem to either point to each other or
>  some page that has vanished.)

I had a DOS PDIC->text utility once, but it never worked that well. and
it was lost years ago.

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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