Mike, is there any chance that you guys will be converting Soothill to a Pleco-friendly format? I saw that you mentioned this in an earlier thread and I think it would be a great addition to your company's offerings.
Soothill
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There was; it currently has a creative commons license and is posted online (http://www.acmuller.net/soothill/soothill-hodous.html). I thought I'd check to see if you guys had any plans to add it before I tried to do so myself.
Note that you can get a much improved version with correct Sanskrit at this site:
http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/glossaries/
They also offer the dingfubao dictionary, a must have if you are studying Chinese Buddhism.
I also have a version of the 佛光大辭典, but I'm not sure about the copywrite on that.
http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/glossaries/
They also offer the dingfubao dictionary, a must have if you are studying Chinese Buddhism.
I also have a version of the 佛光大辭典, but I'm not sure about the copywrite on that.
It'd be great if you could, Mike, especially if it's the updated version. Also, kenianbei, could you PM me? I have a question I was hoping you could help me with.
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I'd be happy to pay, too, for a Pleco version of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism.http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/search-ddb3.html.
Soothill's more likely given that it's public-domain; specialty dictionaries aren't generally expected to be big money-makers for us, so I'm really just as happy releasing a free one as releasing a commercially-licensed one that may take years to even cover its royalty advance.
merry christmas
Ones interested in the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, you can try importing this file:
update: simplified and traditional must be swapped, just a sec!
new file:
I changed the encoding to Unicode (I used UTF-16LE for successfully importing into Pleco),
this way the sanskrit diacritic signs remain intact.
I deleted 3 empty entries. I believe I changed nothing else
Good luck with it!
Btw, the original file I used for converting can be found here:
http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/Buddhdic_cn_utf8.txt
Many versions of this dictionary can be found similar to this one on the Internet, all in the same format, but if it is not allowed to convert it to Pleco, then please just delete my post. I have absolutely no idea about its copyrights.
Ones interested in the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, you can try importing this file:
update: simplified and traditional must be swapped, just a sec!
new file:
I changed the encoding to Unicode (I used UTF-16LE for successfully importing into Pleco),
this way the sanskrit diacritic signs remain intact.
I deleted 3 empty entries. I believe I changed nothing else
Good luck with it!Btw, the original file I used for converting can be found here:
http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/Buddhdic_cn_utf8.txt
Many versions of this dictionary can be found similar to this one on the Internet, all in the same format, but if it is not allowed to convert it to Pleco, then please just delete my post. I have absolutely no idea about its copyrights.
The file that you found and converted is a mere faction of the actual dictionary. What is included in the file that you used is only the head words, pinyin, and brief definitions. The actual online dictionary has full, detailed articles on each word, some quite long. The online version has limited access (something like 10 searches in any 24 hour period, if I recall correctly). Full access requires paying a fee. I would love to have the full version (which is continually updated), if some agreement could be reached with Charles Muller, who maintains the database. This is a far more valuable dictionary than Soothill. I would definitely pay extra to have it on Pleco, even though I already pay the fee to have unlimited use of the online version.
I have to say I actually prefer to have the dictionary this way, instead of the encyclopedic articles written by mostly academic scholars and researchers. In fact, the only reason I use this dictionary, is to quickly check the sanskrit names of disciples and places and so on. I thought if this file is distributed in such way, it must mean that some other people also use it like this: so I made it available for Pleco.dcarpent said:
As far as I can remember, all you need to do in order to have access to the full articles (online), is to contribute some (maybe 10?) articles of your own.
All the best!