Changes.md

Introduction

This page lists changes in various versions of Wakan, in historical order. For changes in versions earlier than 1.67, see old history page.

1.9x

• Redesigned kanji search panel - share your thoughts

  

• Dictionary and component downloader with auto-import

  

• Streamlined manual dictionary import

• Links and copy formats for both kanji and words are now stored as standard XSLT and LNK files

• Modern font support (Meiryo, Yu Mincho/Gothic and others)

• Support for ENAMDICT tags

• Added Palladium cyrillization of Chinese

• Fixed Pinyin and Bopomofo tone display

• More uniform font usage throughout the app

1.87

Warning: wakan.chr format changed. Wakan 1.87+ cannot load older wakan.chr, and Wakan <= 1.87 cannot load new ones.

• New wakan.chr format -- older wakan.chrs won't load.
• New compatible wakan.chr with latest information from KANJIDIC and Unihan included.
• You can now make your own language versions of wakan.chr (although this is a little clumsy). Go to Settings-> Database managment-> Import character data.

1.86

• Redesigned KanjiDetails with less visual clutter, cleaner categories (older combobox is also available).

  

• "Word examples" button in Kanji details.

• Custom links for kanji and expressions.

• Ctrl-C in dictionary lets you copy results in different formats — right-click dictionary results.

  

• Unified JP->EN, EN->JP lookup in dictionary

  

• Redesigned transliteration selection, you can now create custom romaji systems.

  

Since Wakan 1.67 to Wakan 1.85

Warning: Dictionary format changed. Wakan 1.80+ can load older dictionaries, but new dictionaries will not load in older Wakans.

Dictionaries

• New dictionary format with full support for EDICT2 (multi-kana multi-kanji multi-sense articles), full multi-lingual support.
• EDICT2 import
• CC-EDICT import 1.8.17
• Auto-import and auto-update for dictionaries. Just place the latest EDICT/EDICT2/CEDICT/etc file in the Wakan folder.
• Multilingual dict support. You can now import versions of EDICT in your local language (i.e. japanese->czech).
• Dynamic priority for dictionaries (reorder your dictionaries in dictionary manager)

Character data

• Import non-English language KANJIDIC (Settings> Database> Import char data) (parts of Issue #120) 1.8.18

Text translator

• Greatly increased translation speed. A text which took Wakan 1.67 6 minutes to translate now takes about 4 seconds.
• Multithreaded translation feature (further speedup)
• Option to disable "You're about to translate a long text fragment" warning.
• You can now abort the translation process at any time.
• Aozora-Ruby support. Load or paste text with aozora-ruby and it'll be displayed with ruby above the text. Save auto-generated readings in Aozora-Ruby format and read the text in your favorite aozora-bunko reader.
• Export as HTML with Ruby (Issue #24), OpenDocument Text with Ruby (opens in LibreOffice) (Issue #113), kanji+kana with spaces (Issue #58) 1.8.16
• Copy as HTML (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V into Word with Ruby), annotated text as text with ruby (Ctrl-Shift-C) (Issue #94) 1.8.16
• Copy text with translations between Wakan instances (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V in another Wakan) (Issue #114) 1.8.16

Optimization

• Kanji list now refreshes several times faster.
• Faster loading, up to 8 times compared to Wakan 1.67, even with big user vocabularies.

Misc features

• Fullscreen Mode (press F11)
• Option to not show splash screen on start.
• CommandLine enhancements:
  • You can open files for editing by passing them to Wakan.
  • Dictionaries can be imported from the command line.
• Nicer settings dialog, more pages and more logical grouping of options
• Dictionary tag list updated to the lastes one for EDICT.
• Dictionary tags translation. It is now possible to have all those "pop" and "adj-na" tags in your native language.
• Raine radicals list updated to the latest version.
• Option to disable "Do you want to save changes?" warning.
• Option to disable automatic priority adjustment based on what you type (no more "User data changed" messages after editing a text).
• Portable Wakan (Issue #108, Issue #19) 1.8.15 - See Portable
• Multi-select kanji and mass-add to groups (Issue #20) 1.8.15
• Any font size in Editor (Issue #56) 1.8.15
• Category manager, merge and duplicate categories (Issue #57) 1.8.15
• Option to save search params\save column widths on exit (Issue #98) 1.8.15
• Allow resizing for some panels (Issue #92) 1.8.16
• Portrait layout (Tools> Portrait mode) (Issue #100) 1.8.16

Bugfixes and misc

• WordIndex and CharIndex are incorrectly reported as missing when dictionary isn't loaded.
• Do not write wakan.lay since it's not being read anymore
• Temporary data in annot\ not being deleted
• Text editor: Finalize insert before selecting all (Ctrl-A)
• Wakan resets currently selected group in KanjiDetails from time to time
• Reload kanji details when cancelling user changes
• user\char*.bin files being left in Wakan folder
• Flicker when selecting text/scrolling through selected text in the editor.
• Last, partially visible line in the editor is not drawn
• First paragraph not being rendered correctly when visible only partially
• Process messages while displaying the translation progress
• Dictionary manager, Settings now close by ESC key
• Progress bar for import/export vocab (Issue #105) 1.8.15
• Popup hint might make vocabulary edits go to the wrong word (Issue #35) 1.8.15
• Shift-Click does not select text in the editor (Issue #104) 1.8.15
• Text selection in several controls is buggy (Issue #117) 1.8.16
• Fonts are not auto-detected properly when Japanese locale is active (Issue #122) 1.8.16

Files changed

• wakan.exe -- recompiled
• en.lng -- added translation lines
• ru.lng -- added translation lines, corrected translation
• all languages -- minor changes
• wakan.rad -- radical list updated from RADKFILE
• wakan.sod -- recompiled
• wakan.cfg -- kana conversion params added, format of various sections changed
• wakan.ini -- added, optional
• 7z.dll -- added, needed for exporting in OpenDocument, also for auto-downloading