Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator 1.02
FIREFOX ADDON CHINESE PERAPERA-KUN: CHINE
Simply put, this extension will allow you read Chinese on websites. This is useful for just getting around a site, or even MORE useful if you are studying Chinese. It works with both Simplified and Traditional characters, and also allows you to export words to a file to study later.
After installation, you can goto the "customize toolbar" menu and find the green book icon and put it on your firefox toolbar. When you are on a site with Chinese, simply click the green book icon and then put your mouse over Chinese words to view the reading and defintion.
In the extension options dialog you can set a place to save entries to, then when a the popup window with a definition is being displayed, if you press it will export the topmost entry to the file you designated.
In the options dialog you can also click "Show More Entries", which will search the dictionary file for more entries that are relevant. (This is disabled by default).
If you want to see information about a particular character, press while over that character and you will see additional information.
This extension is a modded version of from the plugin originally developed by www.rikai.com -> Rikai-chan -> Perapera-kun which were for Japanese. This extension uses dictionary files generously borrowed from www.adsotrans.com and the CEDICT project as well as the UNIHAN character file.
*The export file will be encoded in GB2312 for Simplified and BIG5 for Traditional so be sure to use a program that can read the file correctly.
If you have comments, feature requests, or issues using this, you can visit the ongoing forum post: http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=12798
or visit my website: http://perapera.wordpress.com
What is new in 1.02 software version? - A working version for FF3, more features to come, check my site for more info/comments: http://perapera.wordpress.com. What is expected in the future? Newly-made Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator 1.3 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 1.4 release build. You may download addon-3349-latest.xpi directly, estimated download time by ADSL or EDGE [~1.8 Mbit/s] is 0:00:31. Just write the reviews of the Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator. System requirements are Firefox:2.0–3.0.*. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator found to be clean. The following languages are supported by Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator: English.
