JWPce

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JWPce is a simple Japanese-language word-processor that runs on the Windows 95,95, ME, 2000, XP and CE platforms. It is designed for non-native speakers of Japanese who want to produce Japanese-language documents. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, JWPce is free software.^[1]

The default installation has English-language menus. Language packs for other languages are available and JWPce is designed to make adding further language packs straightforward.

JWPce offers many facilities that are useful to students of Japanese such as detailed kanji information (using KANJIDIC), a built-in dictionary (using EDICT and similar dictionary files) and various kanji lookup methods.

JWPce supports multiple file encodings. It does not provide facilities for vertical text, nor does it provide facilities to specify different fonts within a document. However, JWPce does allow the user to customize the fonts used to display text in the various parts of the wordprocessor.

A key feature of JWPce is that it runs smoothly on Windows CE and Pocket PC platforms. This allows learners of Japanese to use a PDA as an electronic Japanese dictionary. The version for MS Windows on standard PCs also runs well under Wine in Unix-environments. In case of problems with the compiled jwpce.exe, a special download for Wine is available too.

JWPce is written in C++. The source code is available for download.