[Dictionarysearch] I made a little change for supporting Japanese

shiomura akira shiomura at a.email.ne.jp
Sun Sep 4 04:30:28 EDT 2005


Dear Jaap.
Thank you for good tool.It's very useful.

As I want to use DictionarySearch in Japanese too,
I made little changes in DictionarySearch[0.9.3].

If it isn't unpleasant for you,I want to send this xpi file
 to your adderss.Is it good?
And, can I open this to the public as [0.9.3ja] or else?

Reason:
 It supports only Japanse.
 I think This is welcomed for Japanse users,
 but this change isn't good for users not using Japanese.

(For your information)
I made these 3 changes.
 1)change character-code from Unicode to EUC-JP

  EUC-JP is one of the character-codes of Japanse.
  Many CGIs supporting Japanese use EUC-JP,
  But in mozilla, texts are using Unicode(UTF-8).

  This implement is not perfect.
  -There are some CGIs using Other character-code,like S-JIS
   or UNICODE,too.
  -This might to work bad in other language.

 2)URL-encode
  For Multi-byte support,encode EUC-JP texts using escape().
  #This might work bad for some character.

 3)add ja-JP locale files.

#I think supporting multi-Language may need to change GUI,
#dropdown or else to enable to select using character-code/urlencode
# or not.
#But I cannot. I don't have this skill.

shio


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