Usage of other languages than English

[nielsk]

Since you are using JMDict there should be other languages than English like German or French. Anyway to query with myougiden so I get not only the English results but also the German ones and that I can search for a German word to get the Japanese translation of it?

[melissaboiko]

Hello! This project is currently defunct; the database search is just too damn slow, & I'm too damn lazy to implement a new format at the moment. I'm afraid that adding multilingual support would make it even slower, so I'm a bit reluctant.

However, I'm happy that someone other than me wants to use this thing, so I'll just add support for it in a branch or something. Stay tuned…

[melissaboiko]

@nielsk I coded some simple multi-language support and made it availabe on branch 'multiling'. Would you like to try it out?

There's a --lang (-l) option, and it will also try to autodetect the default language from current locale.

[nielsk]

I will try it out, hopefully tonight otherwise sometime over the weekend. Sorry, that it will take some time :/
But thanks already :)

[nielsk]

I tried it now.
When I search for example with "myougiden --lang de 車" I get only an English result. When I search with for example "myougiden Zug" I get no results with "myougiden zug" I get only results in which "zug" is a part of an English word.
So it doesn't seem to work for me. Also you should make the search case insensitive. In German nouns start with a capital letter and everything else in lower case. Abbreviations are all upper case usually. So, searching in German with a case sensitive search might get less results than expected..

I updated the database after checking out the branch and installing from source with sudo updatedb-myougiden -f. It downloaded a jmdict-file while it downloaded jmdict-e when there was a version installed without multilang-support.

[melissaboiko]

Sorry, I was using the language tags of JMdict, which are 3-letter. Try it like this:

myougiden -l ger 車
myougiden -l ger Zug

I should make it accept two-letter format too, & give an error for unknown langs. Give me a moment…

[nielsk]

Oh, cool. Now it works. And the speed is ok on my i5 with an SSD.
I used the two-letter-codes because you wrote in the myougiden-help the following: "Available languages: de, en, fr, nl, ru"

[melissaboiko]

haha, you're right! well I just made it support both formats so the help message can stay now.

[nielsk]

Works like a charm so far :)