Home-made Japanese-English Dictionary for Kobo

[frostschutz]

The longer I use it the more faults I find with the Japanese dictionary mode. Particularly when reading the Harry Potter books, it uses a lot of <ruby>. While the Kobo is able to display that correctly, it seems to confuse the dictionary selection a lot.

It just won't let me select words, particularly those made up of more than one <ruby> so it doesn't cross boundaries. I've already merged adjacent <ruby> definitions into one (which causes minor formatting issues as it can't seem to line-break them). Even so, I just can't select some things, it randomly decides to go a page forward or backward instead.

Also it's very time consuming to move the word boundary selectors; sometimes it doesn't register and just un-selects everything and I have to start over, or it moves them to a strange place and suddenly the entire text on the page is highlighted.

When tapping some word, it decides to show me the dictionary entry for the kana/particle following the kanji, as if anyone seriously wanted to look that up in a dictionary.

Of course the fault is my own, I have to look up wayyy too many words. :^)

It's great to have this dictionary but I keep wishing I were back in Firefox with Rikaichan.

Let's hope for positive side effects (the more annoying the dictionary lookup, the more worthwhile to actually remember stuff you looked up once, eh?)

[norbusan]

Yeah I know your pain! Ruby often confuses the dict lookup, but not always. And moving handles is often a good luck game.

Long time ago it was even much worse, when I wrote a blog about comparing Kindle and Kobo for Japanese reading.

Click-on-word selection would be nice - select the biggest continuous set of same class glyphs (Hira, Kata, Kanji), like the Kindle is doing it. If I could see the source code I could dive into fixing that, though...

[norbusan]

I forgot - yes, Rikaichan is the one and only one has to measure against. Absolutely spectacular, recognized inflected words even.