Japanese dictionary for the SHARP Zaurus
Romain KUNTZ
kuntz(at)sfc.wide.ad.jp
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This dictionary provides english to japanese, and japanese
to english translations. It is very useful as it also provides 
the hiragana translations of Kanjis.

1. Install packages
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First, install the packages that you will find here:
http://software.nautilus6.org/packages/zaurus/IPKS/dictionnary/

Install them using a terminal and the following command:
# ipkg install package.ipk

Install them in the following order:
zlib-eb_1.2.2v05_arm.ipk
eb_4.1v28_arm.ipk               
ebutils_1.2v01_arm.ipk
eblook_1.6.1v01_arm.ipk
kakasi_2.3.4-2_arm.ipk
zten_1.6.2_arm.ipk

2. Install dictionaries
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Then you have to put the dictionaries either on a CF card, 
SD card or on the flash of the Zaurus. I recommend to put them 
on the flash, because reading operations are a lot faster.
Create a "dict" directory where you want to store the dictionaries:
/mnt/card/dict (for SD card)
/mnt/cf/dict (for CF card)
/home/zaurus/dict (for Zaurus flash)

Then just untar the dictionaries in the "dict" directory.
-> edict_en.fpwebz.tar is japanese<->english dictionary
-> kanjidic_en.fpwebz.tar is kanji dictionary 

You will find other useful dictionaries here:
http://www.hloeffler.info/zaurus/

3. Use dictionary
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Zten is the application you will use.
You have to register the dictionary you want to use:
- go to the  first tab of the application, then click on the 
icon that looks like a paper with a pen, and move from left
to right the dictionaries you want to use. Then click on "OK"
- you can now select the dictionaries used for the search.

On the second tab, you can enter either an english word, a japanese
word (using katakana/hiragana or romanji) and get the result.
The list on the right of the text entry allows you to choose the type
of search: 
- beginning of answers must match the word 
- end of answers must match the word
- the answers must strictly match the word 
- fourth one: I don't know :-)

The last tab of the application gives you some help about the 
dictionaries.


Acnknowledgements
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You will find up-to-date informations on those websites:

Zten software:
http://wiki.gohome.org/zten/

Some useful IPKs:
http://ebsnap.lkj.jp/zaurus/

Dictionaries:
http://www.hloeffler.info/zaurus/

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Questions or comments?
kuntz(at)sfc.wide.ad.jp