Monday, December 24, 2007

OS X 10.5 Leopard: Chinese Module for Dictionary.app

An ingenious programmer has used Apple's Dictionary Development Kit to produce a Chinese module for Dictionary.app based on CEDICT. You can download it here. The unzipped file goes in Library/Dictionaries.

Monday, December 3, 2007

OS X 10.5 Leopard: Fixing Anjal Tamil Input

In the Apple Forums a user pointed out that Leopard's version of the Anjal Tamil Input Method has at least two bugs: the output of the combination "tr" is wrong and the em-dash is not available. Luckily Leopard's Anjal system contains two text files which users can modify to fix such things or make other customizations -- Anjal.keylayout and AnjalTransliterator.txt. You will find them in System/Library/Input Methods/TamilIM/Contents/Resources (you need to do Control + click > show package contents on the TamilIM item to get to Contents).

On my iDisk you can find a folder called "New Anjal" which has modified copies of these files to fix the two bugs mentioned. Or if I haven't got it quite right, it should not be hard to do so yourself.