Subj : Re: seeking a multi-platform japanese-english english-japanese dictionary
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Minderbinder
Date : Fri Sep 17 2004 07:34 am

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 04:19:28 -0700, Pandora Xero wrote:

> don't you wish everyone would state what the post is about in the subject
> line?
>

Not if the subject line is as long as yours was. At least repeat it in the
message body...
 
> anyways, title says it all. i'm looking for something capable of running
> on both windoze and Linux that can translate english to japanese and
> vice-versa. I checked Sourceforge, but all that came up were things for
> PalmOS. features I need include: translation to and from Hiragana,
> Katakana, Kanji, and Romanji. So can anyone help me here? It kinda sucks
> to use an online Dictionary, especially since right now BitTorrent is
> bogging me down.

Personally, I use "gjiten" on *nix w/ X, "WordLookup" on OS X/Carbon, and
only use Windows for games. The only dictionary I know of that runs on
both MS Windows and Linux (I haven't tried it) can be found at:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/japan/JavaDict/

Minderbinder.

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