X J D I C  V1.1 

(This document is extracted from xjdic11.man & xjdic11.install) 

XJDIC is an electronic Japanese-English dictionary program designed to  
operate in  the  X11  window  environment.  In  particular,  it  must 
run in an "xterm" environment which has Japanese language support such 
as provided by "kterm"  or internationalized xterm, aixterm, etc. 

XJDIC functions as: 

(a)  an  English  to  Japanese  dictionary  (eiwa  jiten),  searching  
for  and displaying entries for key-words entered in English; 

(b) a Japanese to English dictionary (waei jiten), searching for and 
displaying entries  for  keywords  or  phrases  entered  in  Japanese 
(kanji,  hiragana or katakana); 

(c) a Japanese-English Character dictionary (kanei jiten), capable of 
selecting kanji characters by JIS code,  radical,  stroke count,  Nelson 
Index number  or reading, and displaying compounds containing that 
kanji. 

New in V1.1 is:

(a) built-in romaji-to-kana conversion

(b) filters for proper-name suppression, etc.

(c) a verb de-inflection mechanism.

(d) support for a alternative dictionary.

XJDIC depends for its performance on a pair of dictionary files; a 
Japanese <-> English dictionary and a Kanji dictionary, and a file of 
radicals.  It has been designed to work with the EDICT dictionary,  
which is the author's extension of MOKE's EDICT,  and the KANJIDIC 
character  dictionary  file,  compiled  by  the author from various 
sources.  EDICT has now over 45,000 entries, while KANJIDIC has  an  
entry  for  each  of the JIS1 and JIS2 kanji.  The file of radicals is 
RADICALS.TM, compiled by Theresa Martin for the earlier JDIC program 

See the document XJDIC11.INSTALL for information on compiling the XJDIC 
program and setting up the dictionary files and index files. You will 
need to obtain and unpack three archive files: xjdic.tar.Z, edict.Z and 
kanjidic.Z. At present these are available on /pub/Nihongo on 
monu6.cc.monash.edu.au. 

Jim Breen 
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology 
Monash University 
Melbourne, Australia 
(jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au) 
Jan 1991 - July 1993