Mojibake

Mojibake is a Japanese-English dictionary program for Unix/Linux systems. It was written with two goals in mind:

Accurate results, ideally with the desired translation appearing at the top of the first page.
A minimal user interface, which is quick and easy to use.

Mojibake is currently alpha software, which is under development. It works, but it's not perfect yet.

Screenshot

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Features

Results are sorted according to relevance.
Queries can be performed by pasting a word into the results area, by clicking the middle mouse button.
Queries can be entered in romaji or using standard Japanese input methods such as canna/kinput2 or SCIM.
Based upon the GTK-2 library.

News

2006-04-09: Version 0.04 release. There is now a configuration window for dictionary selection.
2006-04-09: Mojibake is now hosted on sourceforge.
2005-04-17: Version 0.03 release. Improved searches. The results area now has a better pop-up menu.
2005-02-27: Version 0.02 release. Romaji support added. The dictionary is now automatically converted to UTF-8, so the user does not need to run iconv manually.
2005-02-17: Initial release (version 0.01).

Licence

Installation

The source code is available here. To install the program, do something like this:

tar xzvf mojibake-0.04.tar.gz
cd mojibake-0.04
./configure
make
su
make install
exit

Mojibake also needs a dictionary file in order to work. The EDICT project publishes a free Japanese dictionary, which is available here. To install the dictionary, decompress it and copy it somewhere suitable.

The command to start the dictionary is "mojibake".

When first started, no dictionary will be selected. To select a dictionary, right-click in the results area and choose "preferences" from the pop-up menu. This will open the dictionary selection window, where you can select your dictionary file(s).

Contact

Please send mail to: goldenorfe at users.sourceforge.net (replace "at" with "@"). Alternatively, you can post bugs, patches, and feature requests on the Sourceforge project site for Mojibake.