Moji extension
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| Design by | Erwan Loisant, Gerald Vogt |
| Developed by | Erwan Loisant, Gerald Vogt |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Development status | Active |
| Genre | Mozilla extension |
| License | Open Source Freeware |
| Website | moji.mozdev.org |
Moji is a free, open source, cross-platform Japanese and Chinese dictionary for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird and SeaMonkey written by Erwan Loisant and Gerald Vogt. Moji itself is a 74.8 KB extension that makes it possible to search much bigger free dictionary databases. Moji was designed as a tool to help foreigners who are learning Japanese read Web pages, and it therefore allows search of hiragana, katakana and kanji terms, but not of rōmaji. Its most recent version is 0.9.3 released on March 7, 2008. The program is compatible with Apple Inc. Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux.
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[edit] Available Dictionaries
Because it has the greatest number of entries, installation of the English dictionaries is recommended to all users.
- Japanese - English dictionary (based on Jim Breen's EDICT.)
- English Kanji dictionary
- Japanese - French dictionary (based on J.-M. Desperrier's Dico FJ)
- French Kanji dictionary
- Japanese - German dictionary (based on Ulrich Apel's WaDoKu)
- German Kanji dictionary
- Japanese - Russian dictionary (based on Oleg V. Volkov's Edict files)
- Japanese - Korean dictionary
- Dictionary of Japanese places with hiragana and rōmaji readings
- Dictionary of Japanese names and last names with hiragana and rōmaji readings
- Simplified Chinese - German dictionary (based on HanDeDict)
- Chinese - German dictionary (based on HanDeDict)
- Simplified Chinese - English dictionary (based on Paul Denisowski's CEDICT)
- Chinese - English word dictionary (based on Paul Denisowski's CEDICT)
[edit] Installation
Automatic installation of the extension is possible online using Firefox's or Thunderbird's Add-ons tool or Moji's own automatic tool. Using Moji requires the installation of the Moji estension itself and of at least two dictionaries (a word dictionary and a kanji dictionary).
Automatic installation requires Javascript, but all necessary files can be downloaded and installed manually.
[edit] Usage
Moji in Firefox opens in a sidebar. The sidebar can be opened either using the browser's main menu or pressing Alt-M (Firefox) or Alt-J (Thunderbird). Words can then be selected in the Web page and looked up either dropping them directly onto Moji's search box, or using a drop-down menu or a user-configurable keyboard shortcut. The program has numerous user-configurable options that can be set through Firefox.
