Nils:
- Thanks for noting the search lag, I reviewed the SQL search queries and discovered a couple of small things I could do to incrementally speed up searches in either direction. I may never figure out how to make them instantaneous, but there's a definite improvement.
- I'm glad you were able to figure out what I was saying about updates :P I'll add something in Settings that shows the version of JMDict that the app is currently using.
- The UI one phones is a bit cluttered, I'll admit. I'm thinking about hiding Vocabulary in the three-dot menu to give more room for a longer search bar.
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Marcus:
> http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&e=1122920
- Oh man, I had no idea the EDRDG site had such a page. I see that I have a LOT of work to do in improving the Entry Details view. You're not the first to suggest improvements to it, but you're definitely one of the few people who have provided me with a way to spot check my app's presentaton of JMDict entries versus the ideal presentation. I'll make it a priority to figure out how to make Entry Details look more like that link above.
- I could probably offer up a "quick report" button with some preset reports, provided there's an easy GET/POST-based way to submit such notices to the EDRDG site.
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J:
I'm a fan of Gothic CJK fonts, so I'm more partial to IPAExGothic and WenQuanYi Zen Hei (not to mention the fact that Hanazono Mincho A is a hefty 20MB). Unfortunately, IPAExGothic is missing the ⺌ character, and WZH is missing 𠆢. I want to take ⺌ from WZH and put it into IPAExG, and then pare it down to just the 253 characters I need to display all the kanji components.
Based on what I've read of the two fonts' licenses, I should be fine modifying them like that provided I provide attribution in my app. Font Forge is incredibly obtuse (I tried going in and individually highlighting the characters I needed to preserve, but about twenty glyphs in I misclicked and lost my selections...) and FontLab Studio didn't seem to have an easy way to select all the glyphs. Is this something with which you'd be willing to assist me?
> I've been struggling for the last two weeks with finding a fontHanazono Mincho A is free and pretty comprehensive, if you haven't
> that has all 250-something components
> Do you know anyone versed in the arcane art of font magickIt's trivial to paste a glyph from one font to another in FontForge
> who might be able to help? :P