Re: [edict-jmdict] OT: epwing format

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

On 18/02/2008, Darren Cook <darren@dcook.org> wrote:
>  Thanks, that program turns out to do exactly what I needed. It was
>  confusing until I realized you have to say how many blocks you want to
>  export.
>
>  So, to export edict's epwing file [1], here are detailed instructions
>  (Jim, I've tried to make them understandable even if you're seeing
>  mojibake; let me know if something is unclear):

I tried it with a couple of EB disks I have.

>  1. Open EBDump
>
>  2. Open edict's HONMON file
>
>  3. In the main window in top-left you see "[00]本文". Click that. Just
>  above (and to the right) it says "blks=10314".

Well, I saw "[00]!@#$" so that's what I tried.

>  4. To the right is an input box (the one with little up/down arrows).
>  It is defaulting to 1. Type 10314 in there.
>
>  5. Beneath that (roughly in the middle of the app) is a choice between
>  記述子(1), plain-text (2) and HTML. Choose plain-text.
>
>  6. At the bottom you see the filename where it will write the dump
>  file to. Just above that are a couple of checkboxes. Uncheck both (one
>  says open the dumped file in notepad, which is unwise as it is big, the
>  other says delete the file when closing).
>
>  7. 2nd option in the 2nd menu (i.e. Alt-T, then T) to do the text dump.
>
>  Then copy the file to a linux system and convert it from Shift-JIS to
>  UTF-8 :-).

Total lack of success (this is running in on Win98SE). The EB file
was read and a file was written, but it wasn't in Shift-JIS; it was in
the pseudo ISO2022JP coding that is used inside EBs. There was a menu
item defaulting to "JIS", so I tried changing that to SHIFT-JIS, but it
made no difference.

Wonder why it works for you and not for me?

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/