common EPWING dictionary support checklist

[wareya]

• Daijirin
• Daijisen
• Koujien
• Shinmeikai
• Kenkyuusha
• NHK pitch accent dictionary
• Shinjirin

[micabad]

Hi, I would like to build my own EPWING dictionary by editing the JMDict EPWING files. Is it possible to do so?

[wareya]

EPWING is a dead proprietary format; JMDict is distributed in a custom XML format; and nazeka stores converted EPWING dictionaries in a very basic json format stored in localstorage, and JMDict in a different, more complex json format, embedded directly into the addon's data (https://github.com/wareya/nazeka/tree/master/dict).

Converting JMDict to EPWING doesn't make sense, but if you clarify what you want to do I can point you in the right direction.

[micabad]

Thank you for your response! To be precise, I want to create my own EPWING formatted dictionary so it can be run on Yomichan. I have been using Yomichan for years and really addicted to it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any Japanese-Indonesian EPWING formatted dictionary on the Internet (https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/). I can only find JMdict Japanese-English or German or Dutch. Hence, I want to fill the vacuum of resources for Japanese language learners and communities in my native language.

[wareya]

Rather than load EPWING dictionaries directly, yomichan also loads converted json-based dictionaries, like nazeka does (but the format is different). So being EPWING isn't actually an important constraint.

I'm not sure whether yomichan's json-based format is documented, but the EPWING converters it uses are here: https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan-import

If you find a digital, redistributable Japanese-Indonesian dictionary, it shooouuuld be physically possible to write a converter for it? Directly to yomichan's json-based format, I mean.