Subject: Re: More about Chinese OS 6.03

From: Ed Lai <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 11:16:44 -0800

> Also Ed Lai's Chinese dictionary will also be in trouble.

You cannot run the dictionary stack 0.3 in 6.03, that is one reason I hate
the new system. Anyway, I am close to converting it over, I just want to see
if more changes is need for HyperCard 2.0.

For those who don't know what it is, it is a HyperCard stack dictionary of
all the characters in either GB or Big-5. I am looking at the issues of
how you can make an electronic dictionary easier to use. However the stack
will be missing what is consider the gut of a dictionary, i.e. the meaning
of a word or its translation.

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From: Lars-Erik Fredriksson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 03:55:42 +0100

Sounds great Ed,

I exported all the Fanti from that stack and converted it via Fung Fung
Lee's and Ricky Yeung's HC-converter (You can update it for direct
conversion from BIG5 to HGB by using the 'edited' tables from the HCu release
(HC-convertor for Unix by Ricky Yeung) then ran it through Ed's
Clipborad Magician another truly great gem from Ed ;-)  !

Then I imported it to the Fanti version of the stack and converted
it to HyperCard 2.0. It really works very well and I really like
that when one is running the resources for both systems one can have
both forms of characters.Fongti for the HGB-system and Kai for the
BIG5 system looks really beutiful! So Ed my question is are you planning to
combine the two stacks ? At the moment my combined stack takes 3.5 meg but
there are still some info embedded in the Jianti-stack that I guess I
should dig out? The stack would be very improved by adding the cihui's from the
cihui input one should use it as a repository and if possibly do a script that
could take a list of cihui's and sort them in at the right beginning character
it would also be desirable to have cihui sorted in where the second character
matches and add them in a separate field or at the end of the list.
Supposedly there is a electronically entered Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary
entered with 225.000 + words in it but I have not been able to lay my hands on
it yet! There is also a 120.000 cihui entered by a british company ( so they
say but I have not gotten that either it is tru though as I know the woman
that did most of the inputting! There is also a 40.000 words German-Chinese
dictionary that I hope to get after signing enough license papers... Sigh!

Why is it that it seems to be the same mechanisms and sentiment and no real
different in the man who is greedy for knowledge and the man who is gready for
material wealth.......... 1/2 a :-)

(Sorry to bother you others with this note for Fung Fung Lee! Do you not get
my mail Fung Fung? It bounced several times! and I have gotten no
reply to my latest mail to you last week?)

All the best and if anyone have more information on digitized Chinese
dictionaries it would be great to know.

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