Re: EDICT and edict.el

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

    >> I looked at converting EDICT to a sort of escape-less JIS,
    >> using say "<>" as JIS-in/JIS-out codes, and interfacing to the
    >> glimpse text

    Darren> The problem with this is telling the difference between a
    Darren> genuine < and one that means the start of JIS. Similarly
    Darren> between > (ascii code 62) to mean JIS-out, and a kanji
    Darren> whose first byte is a 62.

No problem; "grep -c '[<>]' $EDICT_DICTIONARIES" => 2.  I would just
quote those with '\' or something.  This is intended as a special
purpose facility using an existing English-oriented (and therefore
ASCII-oriented) indexing package on a very specialized database, not
as a general purpose facility.  For that, Jeff Friedl's lookup package
(ftp://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/linux/packages/Japanese/lookup*,
you can also get it at ftp://ftp.cc.monash.ac.jp/pub/nihongo) looks
like a much better bet.

If I really wanted a general purpose facility, I'd use one of straight 
JIS, 2-byte EUC, or maybe even "ISO-2022-* MIME-quoted-printable".

Steve

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