birchill
Support EPWING dictionaries
My small brain don't seem to be able to make a pull request, so I'll be putting it here (Sorry). One of the things I like about Yomichan is that you can upload your own dictionaries (In fact, it won't work if you don't), and while I can totally use Rikaichamp the way it is, I'd ratter use some J-J dictionary instead of the one used here. It could be a built-in option or a way to upload yourself, whatever is fine. By the way, I'd also ask for a "auto-start" option, if the button of the "press-to-translate" thing come to life. Thank you for the amazing work you've done here (y).
Yes, a J-J dictionary would be great. Do you know of a freely available one?
I may have heard about some, but I'm not sure. If it'd show site results, then Weblio (https://www.weblio.jp), Goo (https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/) and Kotobank (https://kotobank.jp) are some I use. Considering the chances of having a "free-to-use-as-you-want" like WWWJDIC around, I think that the function to upload your own dictionary would work better (EPWING), at least for the most basic ones, like Daijirin.
By the way, I'd also ask for a "auto-start" option, if the button of the "press-to-translate" thing come to life. Thank you for the amazing work you've done here (y).
Press-to-translate is likely in the near future. Auto-start should already exist. If you have rikaichamp running when you close Firefox it should automatically re-start when you open Firefox again.
Updated title to scope this to EPWING support since auto-start is already implemented and press-to-translate is tracked elsewhere.
Yes, a J-J dictionary would be great. Do you know of a freely available one?
If you mean freely licensed, there is https://ja.wiktionary.org/ but it's probably not very complete (and hard to scrape)
Might I suggest this be broadened to allow more dictionaries?
I say that because I think using Wikidata as a dictionary in Rikai would be extremely powerful.