it's grest app for user who uses the epwing but
I have just updated it for IOS 7, but i have found that it dose not fit for IFAD MINI... please check it on Ipad....and make the improvement for user...
Absolutely essential
An amazing portal to a wide variety of Japanese dictionaries. A beautiful piece of work.
Great app until upgrade
This was the best app for EPWING dictionaries on iOS devices. However, the latest version is broken on the iPad. You can install dictionaries, but it will not display the entries. It was working fine before I upgraded. The same dictionaries will work fine on the iPhone. I hope this issue is fixed in the next update.
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Needs more fonts for japanese characters
The software is amazing, but it would be perfect to have more choices of fonts for kanji, hiragana and katagana, not just the English fonts.
Very good but latest update makes it crash on startup
Great app worth every penny almost all complaints by other users on older versions are now fixed. But the latest update makes it crash on startup. I will rereview when this is fixed...
Perfect for serious students of Japanese
Any epwing format dictionary can be installed - I have Eijiro, Genius, Kenkyusha daijiten and Kojien installed. These can be found for free online with a bit of effort, or purchased from large bookshops in Japan. I used filezilla to copy them to my iPod. When copying, look at the folder structure of the default bundled dictionary, and then copy your new dictionaries following that.
Searches are very quick, even when searching multiple dictionaries at once.
Only thing I would say could be improved is the text selection within the results pane - it is sometimes hard to select words for copying etc.
ibunko, a Japanese text reader app, can be set to send words to ebpocket, which I find is much quicker compared to the copy-switch-paste method I was using before.
If you want to purchase the big dictionaries in-app, try searching for an app called 'Ryusys' rather than using this one.
Searches are very quick, even when searching multiple dictionaries at once.
Only thing I would say could be improved is the text selection within the results pane - it is sometimes hard to select words for copying etc.
ibunko, a Japanese text reader app, can be set to send words to ebpocket, which I find is much quicker compared to the copy-switch-paste method I was using before.
If you want to purchase the big dictionaries in-app, try searching for an app called 'Ryusys' rather than using this one.
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limitations and workarounds
Firstly, if you don't want it to crash when accessing half of your custom dictionaries, use `ebshrink` on them (that is, on the ones that aren't preshrunk).
The _features_ are advertised, so let's jump to the limitations (which seem to be common in software of this sort):
- zero clipboard support, which can be _extremely_ annoying.
- supports bookmarks, but not lists of bookmarks
- no "jump" feature, unlike your 電子辞書. Only jumps to EPWING xrefs. This wouldn't be so irritating if it had clipboard support.
- supports lookups that _begin_ with your kanji, but not lookups _containing_ your kanji (e.g., 文 will find 文字, but not 例文). This is hard to do efficiently, though, and it isn't usually such a big deal.
- does not find exact matches first. Instead, it relies on the order that results are returned from the index. This is a HUGE problem when using the included version of EDICT. You're at the mercy of the order of items in your dictionary.
- the included ftp server library seems to be broken on iphone OS 3.1.1. Access to it only works some of the time, but if you're persistent, it's usable. Additionally, there is zero authentication, so be careful about starting the ftp server on public networks.
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Only game in town
As far as I'm aware, this is the only Japanese dictionary app that allows one to upload one's own dictionaries, in EDICT or EPWING format.
Pros:
• It actually works. This is an ambitious app with a number of important features, especially dictionary uploads and dictionary groups.
Cons:
• Cluttered interface. Customization options are unnecessary and awkwardly implemented. The functions of some buttons are mysterious.
• Buggy. I've loaded the Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary in EPWING format, and if this has been selected as a dictionary to search by default, then this app will crash upon launch. Resetting the app through the prefs and then manually re-enabling the dictionary allows it to work. This should not be necessary.
Potential buyers should be aware that this does not do kanji lookup by stroke count, radical, etc. That would be nice, but I don't consider the lack of it to be a strike against.
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The definitive EPWING dictionary reader
This application is of course not for everyone, but if you know what EPWING dictionaries are and you want to read them on your iPhone, this is the application you need. There were a few bugs in the first release (with reordering groups) but with the new version everything's been ironed out and there are also some nice new features and settings.
The interface is quite nice and it's very quick and responsive even with large dictionaries. I'm running Kenkyusha Waei, Kenkyusha Eiwa, Eijiro, and Waeijiro and it reads them all with no problems. The gaiji-unicode map is also a nice addition, but sadly it hasn't been implemented for Kenkyusha yet.
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