RE: east asia han character dictionary.
This is taking a long time and it's going to take
me a long time. But since I'm already looking into it, I'm thinking this should be an opportunity to indeed create a more sophisticated dictionary format for prs. Not just searchable by fields but even morphology analysis.
Yes, language learners and those with difficulties immediately benefit from a simple dictionary lookup of strings as words.
But a dictionary that used some modular lists and indexes to look at more than one database has the benefit of providing an eink and ultra portable slate medium to a system, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...3a1999.01.0227
click on any word, you get a whole linguistic profile of that word.
Of course, battery power becomes a problem. But as a project, this interests me. Then I'll worry if it can be done without being connected to usb. And if it needs more power, just connect a battery pack over usb cable and all the troubles and workarounds needed to do so with sony prs.
who knows? maybe the T1 will allow easy usage while plugged in and it won't be problem for later models.
As for details. so far, it seems that m17n library on linux would be, in terms of programming, the easiest choice. Just to be ported to prs. My impression is that other IME graphical inputs are like "front ends" to m17n.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-m17n/