I remember someone on the list does language stuff. Dusty ------- Start of forwarded message ------- LINUX DESKTOP APPLICATIONS --- November 08, 2001 Published by ITworld.com -- changing the way you view IT http://www.itworld.com/newsletters ________________________________________________________________________________ HIGHLIGHTS * Linux offers a cornucopia of software options to help you master your Japanese language skills, as well as many other languages. ________________________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED LINK FREE SAMPLE! NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION RESEARCH Download a free sample of the SPEX Network Intrusion Detection Systems research module. Network intrusion detection (NID) systems are the "burglar alarms" that provide information about attempts to penetrate network security. This research module analyzes and reviews new NID solutions as well as recent upgrades to existing products. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3532221;4146647;b ______________________________________________________________________________ Using Linux to Study Japanese By Eric Foster-Johnson Linux provides a number of tools to help study foreign languages. A lot of this comes from the fact that Linux is truly an international operating system. Developers from all over the globe work to make all the programs included with a Linux distribution. Gjiten is one of the latest tools. Built on top of the GNOME desktop environment, Gjiten provides a Japanese jiten, or dictionary, using the long-available EDICT and KANJIDICT dictionary files and presents a GNOME-based windowed front- end. Unlike dictionaries for most Western European languages, Japanese dictionaries, especially online ones, tend to be quite complicated. For example, Gjiten, like most Japanese dictionaries, allows you to look up the Kanji (literally, Chinese characters) from the Japanese phonetic Hiragana alphabet. First, you enter text in Hiragana using an input method to convert Western European characters into Hiragana. Then, you look up the Kanji for that sequence of Hiragana characters; however, most Hiragana combinations have a number of possible Kanji, each with a different meaning. Electronic dictionaries like Gjiten then display the available Kanji choices for the Hiragana text and you choose the proper combination for the meaning you want to convey. You can download Gjiten from http://gjiten.sourceforge.net. Gjiten depends on a number of other packages, so the installation can be a bit complex. You need to download the EDICT and KANJIDICT dictionary files, set up an X-Window input method, and install a Japanese locale definition. See the instructions at http://gjiten.sourceforge.net/gjiten-doc/installation.html for details. A manual appears at http://gjiten.sourceforge.net/gjiten-doc/index.html. Other programs of interest to students of Japanese include XJDIC (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/xjdic), an X-Window Japanese dictionary program from Jim Breen, and KanjiPad (http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/kanjipad) for Japanese handwriting recognition. KDrill (http://www.bolthole.com/kdrill) is a Kanji drill program, while JDrill (http://www.bolthole.com/jdrill) is a cross- platform Java version of the same program. In addition, Mike Fabian offers a page on CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) support in SuSE and other Linux distributions at http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html. About the author(s) ------------------- Eric Foster-Johnson has written 14 books on Linux, Unix, programming and open source tools. 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