Doseijisho is a new multilingual dictionary GUI program made in Zig. Currently, it supports StarDict, EPWING and TAB formats. In it, you can load multiple dictionaries. Still quite a WIP, I'll tidy things up soon enough.
It uses MeCab for converting phrases into 分かち, separating them into words, making it possible to serach using entire phrases (like in Jotoba). That, besides personal amusement, is mostly the reason I made this, for I couldn't find a good desktop dictionary that could do that, that and Linux's dictionary software is quite lacking.
Doseijisho has an AppImage on its release page, you may choose to install it that way. Currently, it's not in any package managers.
Doseijisho's dependencies are gtk4, MeCab and libeb. Plus it's written in Zig, on Arch Linux (similarly enough on other *NIX systems) these can be installed by:
# pacman -S gtk4
$ paru -S mecab-git mecab-ipadic libeb // or manually or using any other AUR helper
$ paru -S zig-dev-bin // project works with zig master
Then, you can simply clone the repository and run zig build run to start the program. The binary is currently in zig-out/bin/doseijisho.
For common usage, I recommend using zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast instead. When debugging, it's better to disable it.
doseijisho [options] ... [dictionary] [search-queries] ...
[dictionary] sets the target dictionary for search in the cli interface
[search-queries] sets the search words to the target dictionary, it can take more than one word.
If no [search-queries] are set, it will read from stdin by default. If [dictionary] and [search-queries] aren't set, it will trigger the GTK interface.
-h --help shows this menu
-s --stardict [stardict-file] sets StarDict dictionary
-t --tab [tab-file] sets tabulated dictionary
-e --epwing [eb-file] sets EB(EPWING, EBG...) dictionary
-l --list list dictionary titles (separated by newlines)
-v --verbose enable verbose output (useful for debugging)
-c --cli-only disable all other interfaces besides cli
For example:
doseijisho -e ~/docs/dict/Daijirin -e ~/docs/dict/Kenkyusha_Waei_Daijiten_V5 -s /home/saturnian/docs/dict/stardict-kanjidic2-2.4.2/ -s ~/docs/dict/stardict-jmdict-ja-en-2.4.2/ -s ~/docs/dict/stardict-latin-english-2.4.2/ -s ~/docs/dict/stardict-enamdict-2.4.2
For the cli:
doseijisho -e ~/docs/dict/Daijirin -e ~/docs/dict/Kenkyusha_Waei_Daijiten_V5 -c "研究社 新和英大辞典 第５版" "優しい"
優しい:
やさしい２【優しい】 <?>(yasashii)
〔柔和な〕 gentle; tender; soft; meek; 〔優雅な〕 graceful; delicate; 〔愛情ある〕 affectionate; sweet; 〔温和な〕 mild(-mannered); 〔親切
〕 kind(hearted); kindly; 〔温順な〕 suave; quiet; 〔人当たりのよい〕 amiable; sweet.
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For other examples on the cli interface, you may look at the scripts on the root of the repository.