For a (digital) Pali dictionary
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 2151
Date: 2007-05-15
Just a very brief note:
For those who struggle with Pali dictionaries in digital format, you
might want to glance at this "ready-made" computer interface, to which
any (Asian) language can be applied:
http://numata.designed.jp/?cmd=read&page=EIJIRO%20mini&lang=en
The example displayed is an English-Japanese dictionary --but the
point is that if you were to (e.g.) re-format the files from the PTS
Dictionary (or the Pali dictionary distributed by www.metta.lk) you
could have a proper computer interface for the dictionary (and even
non-Romanized text ... which you all know I prefer) without having to
do much programming.
Sooner or later, someone has to volunteer to do this...
Having a digital dictionary as a mess of (non-Unicode) files should be
abandoned with the 20th century (along with ozone-depleting hairspray,
and, to be optimistic, industrialized genocide).
E.M.