About edict_sub_access_v02-001.mdb (2002/07/22)
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This Microsoft Access database file contains information from EDICT 
version V02-001 dated April 25 2002 Copyright (C) 2001 James William Breen.
This version of EDICT has been obtained from the file located at
http://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_sub.zip
The data contained in this database is subject to all copyright and license
information described in the original EDICT documentation.
A HTML version of the EDICT documentation can be found at
http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_doc.html

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This database does NOT contain all data from EDICT but rather the subset 
available in edict_sub.zip (19975 entries)


Version history

EDICT version V02-001 April 25 2002

2002/07/22 - Latest EDICT version (V02-001 April 25 2002)


This database file contains all the information from EDICT.

The data from EDICT was first imported into a SQL Server 7.0 database using
ASP (Active Server Pages) scripts running on IIS on Windows 2000 Server.
Extreme care was taken for the data to be imported without any losses or
mistakes. However, if there were to be any differences between the original EDICT
file and this database, please let me know. Corrections to the EDICT entries
should be directed to Mr. Breen.


A previous Microsoft Access version of EDICT, by Scott Barlow, was available
at http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_access97.zip

However that version was didn't contain all data from the latest version of
EDICT, since then over 30000 new entries have been added.
Also some English entries were cut at 255 characters length because of the
data field's length limitation.

This database contains all 19975 entries from EDICT subset version V02-001.
The "english" field's type was changed to Memo which allows free-length text.
The database structure is slightly different from the one edict_access97.mdb 
had made, although field names were left same, all data is now contained in 
one table with the following characteristics.


  edict -- The only table containing all data from EDICT version V01-002

     id      (integer)   Unique ID representing the line number in the EDICT
                         file, excluding the first line of EDICT (version info).
                         Numbering starts at 1 up to 97927.
     kanji   (text (60)) Japanese entry with kanji, blank if no kana entry
                         was provided (as it was in edict_access97.mdb).
     hk      (text (60)) Japanese entry in kana. This is the data found
                         between brackets ([..]) in the EDICT entry, if none 
                         this is the text from the beginning of the line up 
                         before the first space followed by a slash (beginning
                         of English definition).
     english (memo)      English definition imported as is excluding leading 
                         and trailing slashes.


Hoping that this can help some developers to use the precious contents of
EDICT in their non-commercial Windows applications or Web projects.

Best regards,


Patrick Benny
Computer programmer learning Japanese
chipple@chipple.net
2002/02/28


(This text file and database file have been authored by Patrick Benny
 however all data contained in the database is subject to all copyright and 
 license information described in the original EDICT documentation.
 A HTML version of the EDICT documentation can be found at
 http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_doc.html)