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Lookup tool for CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary New Version !
Perl script cedictlookup, version 1.2.1-a.1 (originally by David Hiebeler) for doing Chinese vocabulary lookup (by Chinese, pinyin, or English) from CEDICT-format vocabulary files with tone numbers or tone marks pinyin.
Script modified to lookup the new CEDICT-format vocabulary files containing both traditional and simplified Chinese in UTF8 encoding.
New version adapted to cedict files containing compound (not seperated) tone number pinyin.
See information about CEDICT and On-line Chinese Tools at www.mandarintools.com
Download cedictlookup.tar.gz
Convert pinyin tone numbers to tone marks New Version !
The perl script utf8ify_pinyin.pl converts anything that looks like ASCII pinyin with tone numbers at the end of the word into utf-8 with proper pinyin tone marks.
New version now also converts compound (not separated) tone number pinyin.
(original version by Forrest Cahoon (hanziquiz@abstractfactory.org))
Download utf8ify_pinyin.pl.tar.gz
Compose pinyin tones (Linux)
Copy the file Compose to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_CN.UTF-8 or into your UTF-8 Compose file.
Download Compose.tar.gz
Free planetarium program HNSky by Han Kleijn
The free planetarium program HNSKY for Windows can also be used under Linux using Wine.
Open it in its directory using 'wine hnsky.exe'.
"Hallo northern sky" or HNSKY is a planetarium program for windows. Have a try. It is free with 26000 deepsky objects and all stars to magnitude 12 and with the original GSC CD's, GSC-ACT or the USNO UCAC2 to magnitude 16. It displays all planets, the Moon, Sun, moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Neptune and a few hundred asteroids and comets. It comes with 255 small DSS (r) deepsky images which will blend in at the right size and orientation.
It is complete with the SAO, PPM, Tycho-2 star databases, up to date deepsky database, Realsky (r) images and access to the external GSC and USNO CDROM star catalogs. Telescope control using the universal ASCOM package, a Realsky viewer (incl. source) DDE controlled from HNSKY and a BMP/JPEG to FITS conversion utility.
"Hallo Northern Sky" screen shot, M20, Mars
Astronomical Software Ephemeris XEphem
The scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris software package for UNIX-like* systems.
Written in C, X11 and Motif with full source code freely available.
- Linux users, if you need a webcam driver, visit Michel Xhaard´s site.
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