Support reading Warodai (UTF-16 text, Japanese-Russian)

[GrimPixel]

Would you consider supporting the txt format of Warodai?

[banditto9]

Hello and many thanks for your wonderful tool! Let me join to the topic starter as Warodai dictionary in text format is the most updated type and a universal one. Personally I'm looking forward for this support as my target conversion to epub and mobi so to use it on Kindle ereader. Thank you.

[banditto9]

Let me put small addition here. Warodai project also publishes a link to a contributor who makes an EDICT format from the text: https://github.com/update692/warodai-to-edict As a result we get "output.txt" which looks close to a CSV file but with "/" delimeter. This makes the conversion easier I think. Support to an old but still existing EDICT (not EDICT2) format can be added to the PyGlossary project at once. Thank you for your time and attention.

[soshial]

Just use the StarDict version and convert it to the desired format, @banditto9

[banditto9]

@soshial hello and thanks for your tip. I know it exists, but the version is old enough - txt is updated on more frequent basis (months vs years) as 3rd party conversions are rarely performed.

[soshial]

Noone is going to develop for a single 1-off case, especially for free. It's simply not realistic

[banditto9]

@soshial I see, I'd be happy to make private fork, but, unfortunately I'm not a developer. In the meanwhile I was able to make some kind of a conversion via https://github.com/update692/warodai-to-edict to one line and then do separation in Excel to CSV. Hope this will be helpful somehow to the topic starter. It worked but lack of formatting makes it not very usable as everything goes as one line with no \n or \r\n.

What can be added so as not it to be a "1-off case" is the text "\r\n separator" which is missing now. As a "vertical" kind of alternative to the existing "horizontal" CSV text option. I understand this is still not a common standard for plain text dictionaries but may exist outside the Warodai.