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CEDICT (EPWING)    Ver. 0.1     2005.10.25


0. Install [Top]
Unpack the archive under any desired parent directory/folder, preserving the internal directory structure packed.
[Dir]


1. Original Data [Top]
CEDICT:
in UTF-8 with both traditional and simplified Chinese
(cedictu8.zip, 2005.10.01)
(The current maintainer: Erik Peterson)
http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html

Copyright & License:
Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski

CEDICT original web page:
(Not available any more)
http://www.mindspring.com/~paul_denisowski/cedict.html

(Archived pages via www.archive.org)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mindspring.com/~paul_denisowski/cedict.html ( * )

(Online-search)
http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html
http://seba.studentenweb.org/thesis/yase_in.php


Unicode font:
efont-unicode-bdf (The /efont/ Unicode Bitmap Fonts)
(efont-unicode-bdf-0.4.2.tar.bz2, 2004.09.15)

Copyright & License:
(c) Copyright 2000-2001 /efont/ The Electronic Font Open Laboratory.
http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/

Unihan database:
Unicode version: 4.1.0
Table version: 1.1
(Unihan.zip - Unihan.txt, 2005.03.29)
http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html

Copyright & License:
Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved.



2. Conversion to EPWING [Top]
Converted to the JIS X 4081:2002 (a subset of EPWING-V1.0) format with:
EBStudio v1.67
http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~h_ishida/
(for Windows [JP], shareware)



3. Specification [Top]
Headword: 简体字 [繁体字] (Simplified [Traditional])
Arrangement: Alphabetical order in pinyin phonetics
Number of entries: 30,546
English reverse index: 89,358

Search Methods:
[Headword]
Pinyin w/ or w/o tone number
Unicode(hex)
JIS/MS-Kanji( *1 )

[Conditional]
English words

[Complex]
Unicode(hex), radical, total storoks( *2 ), category, field

[Ignore letters] (Remove them)
Non-alphanumric letters

[Search examples]
Headword by hanyu pinyin:
Guo2biao1/guobiao => 国标 [國標]

Pseudo Ja-Zh-En search( *1 ):
国標     => 国标 [國標]
簡体字 => 简体字 [簡體字]

(*1) With JIS/MS-Kanji (JIS X 0208-1990); only if a corresponding or variant character is available/mappable, otherwise replaced with a ''〓" (geta-mark.)
(*2) Differs much by the counting methods.



4. Verified [Top]
Operating System:
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 98

EPWING viewer:
DDwin v2.66 (2005.05.28)



5. Recommendable EPWING viewer [Top]
DDwin v2.66
http://homepage2.nifty.com/ddwin/
(for Windows [JP], freeware)



6. Copyright & License [Top]
The copyright of this SOFTWARE, in the format of the JIS X 4081, is attributable and belongs to the copyright holders of the original data.  This software is a freeware, and permission to copy, modify and redistribute for any purpose without fee or royalty, and to use for non-commercial, provided that such use complies with the original license conditions, is hereby granted.



7. No Warranty & Liability [Top]
This SOFTWARE is provided absolutely "as is" without any express or implied warranties of any kind including noninfringement of the intellectual property right of the third parties or fitness for any particular purposes. There are no liabilities, whether direct or indirect, consequential or contingent, special or incidental, and exemplary or punitive, related to or arising from the use of this software.



8. History [Top]
DateVer.Description/Change
2005.10.250.11st release



9. Converted by [Top]
Maximilk
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037273/





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efont license:
(c) Copyright 2000-2001 /efont/ The Electronic Font Open Laboratory.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the team nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this font without specific prior written permission.

THIS FONT IS PROVIDED BY THE TEAM AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TEAM OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS FONT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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Unicode license:
COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE

Copyright © 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under the Terms of Use in http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Unicode data files and any associated documentation (the "Data Files") or Unicode software and any associated documentation (the "Software") to deal in the Data Files or Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Data Files or Software, and to permit persons to whom the Data Files or Software are furnished to do so, provided that (a) the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear with all copies of the Data Files or Software, (b) both the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in associated documentation, and (c) there is clear notice in each modified Data File or in the Software as well as in the documentation associated with the Data File(s) or Software that the data or software has been modified.

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