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Kanji dictionary integration to translator

Open bayazidbh opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The online translators are as usual very spotty - it gets the general idea of what the sentence is supposed to mean decently enough, but if one only have problems with a few kanji, then it's better to have a way to understand that kanji and then piece together the sentence yourself.

Describe the solution you'd like Some sort of kanji dictionary integration to the translator window.

Describe alternatives you've considered As the kanji translator seems to be a browser of sort, then perhaps integration with Yomi-chan or Rikaichamp?

Alternatively, a custom translator that pulls from an offline dictionary (integrated as a translator) of a sort?

bayazidbh avatar May 18 '21 02:05 bayazidbh

Hi! I have per word translators/dictionaries in wish-list, but I don't have any concrete plans how or when to do it. So far it's someday/maybe.

As a workaround, you can select and translate a single word (kanji).

You can also open the translator's window via tray icon's context menu. Some translation services (like google) show word's translation when you select it.

OneMoreGres avatar May 18 '21 17:05 OneMoreGres

Yeah for this currently Google is probably the best option. DeepL is amazing if you just want to read and the quality is actually decent, but it doesn't show the latin letters so it's not good for learning kanji. Google option is good for that.

Only issue I can think of is sometimes selecting singular kanji or too few letters the recognition is worse than if it was a full sentence.

Enferlain avatar Jul 11 '21 22:07 Enferlain