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rikaichan

Submitted by jon on Wed, 2006-09-13 06:27
About
rikaichan is a popup Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary extension for Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

Features:
  • Simple to use, just hover the mouse on top of a Japanese word.
  • Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives.
  • Has an optional toolbar that allows you to manually type the word to lookup.
  • Detailed kanji view shows meaning/keyword in English, on/kun readings, and other information.
  • Hiragana, katakana and half-width katakana are treated the same making it possible to lookup stylized/emphasized words.
This extension is licensed under GNU General Public License v2.


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» Rikaichan 2.00
Requires: Firefox 3.x, Thunderbird 3.x, Seamonkey 2.x
  • Use an sqlite database for the dictionaries. This significantly reduces memory use, and speeds up turn-on time.
  • Multiple dictionaries can now be installed at the same time. Use ENTER, SHIFT or keys 1 to 9 while the popup is visible to cycle though the available dictionaries. The Options window can be used to set the order in which the dictionaries are shown.
  • Added a Download button in the Options:Dictionaries window.
  • Use the K key to make the popup stick(ier) and not hide it immediately. This should make it easier to select the content of the popup for copying to the clipboard. Thanks to Zork Zero for his help.
  • Added option "always enable at startup" under Options:General:Enable Mode.
  • Save string settings in Unicode. Thanks to Zork Zero.
  • Use default create mode when saving to a file to make it more compatible with Windows XP. Thanks to Andrew W.
  • The "D" key can now be used to hide the word's definition and show only the readings as a hint. This setting is also available in Options:Dictionaries. It does not affect copied/saved entries.
  • Work-around problem getting path in Firefox 3.7a6.

» Rikaichan 1.09
Requires: Firefox 2.x, 3.x, Thunderbird 2.x, 3.x, Seamonkey 2.x
  • Fixed: Rikaichan may fail to display info when in Thunderbird 2.x's main window. Also generates invalid top/left error messages in the console.


Dictionary Files

You can now also download rikaichan from mozdev.org and addons.mozilla.org.

Importing Entries (requires 2.00b2+)
The following is a very basic tool that will allow you to append an EDICT-like formatted file to an existing dictionary.

Download: rcxmerge_002.xpi

To start, click Tools, then RCX Merge. It will popup a series of dialogs asking for the file (in plain-text EDICT format), the character encoding (only UTF8, Shift-JIS and EUC-JP are supported), and in which dictionary to append the imported entries.


Acknowledgments
Rikaichan exists thanks to the work of these guys... :)

Todd Rudick for rikaiXUL [link]
rikaichan was originally based on this extension by Todd Rudick who also created the original popup dictionary site rikai.com.
James William Breen, Jean-Marc Desperrier, Oleg V. Volkov, Ulrich Apel, and the Electronic Dictionary Research & Development Group for JMDICT/KANJIDIC/ENAMDICT [link]
The guys that made the dictionary data used in rikaichan.
Michael Raine and James William Breen for RADKFILE
Parts of the data used for the kanji display are based on this work.
Josh Glover for Thunderbird port
Thanks to Josh's work, rikaichan now works with Thunderbird.