Re: [edict-jmdict] EDICT and EDICT2 formats

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

On 20 December 2012 13:16, Paul Upchurch <upchurch.paul@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds reasonable to me. The one request I'd make is that the legacy version be kept available indefinitely, since some very useful programs that are no longer under development use it.

No reason to stop it being made. I routinely use xjdic, and it needs
that format.

> In particular, I've yet to find a better Japanese text editor/dictionary program for Windows than JWPce, which has sadly been left alone since 2005. Searching for replacements, the only one I saw anyone recommending was wakan, which doesn't seem to have been updated since early 2008.

Interesting comment. I used JWPce for a while on a Casio WinCE thingo
I bought in Japan. I admit
I mainly used it for the dictionary.

Jim

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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University