This is a set of wishlist items for the various projects. There is also an old wishlist page. Some of the items in this section have been copied from it.
Note that the groupings overlap - changes to JMdict/EDICT will sometimes be related to a change in JMdictDB and possibly have an inpact on WWWJDIC, etc.
Please feel free to add items. Use the "discussion page" (tab at the top) to discuss matters.
My wishlist ReneMalenfant 06:46, 11 January 2011 (UTC).
The "search type" for the third text box on the Advanced Search page should be "Ends", not "Is".
Fix weird spacing issues in search results. E.g., if you search for "Is 地震前兆現象", then you double-click on the headword "地震前兆現象" in Firefox and CTRL-C, it copies it as "地震前兆現象 " with a space at the end. This is particularly annoying since neither the EDRDG interface nor my Japanese dictionary software is capable of ignoring trailing whitespaces. Which means I have to delete a space from the end of what I paste every single time I look something up though CTRL-C, CTRL-V.
If we're going to be including 旧字 as headwords in entries (which I'm still not sure we should do given the fact that it can be implemented on the user end using a simple mapping tool for lookup), we should be able to associate each 旧字 headword variant with its 新字 equivalent. For example, we currently have an entry as: 仮名；仮字；假名[oK]. We should be able to specify that 假名 is [oK] for 仮名 not 仮字. (Although in this case it is hopefully obvious, in other cases it is not as clear.) After this is done, [oK] headwords should be hidden from users by default.
Likewise, an ability to associate historical kana readings (which we currently do not allow) with modern kana readings. (Low priority, but something that really needs to be done as a first step if historical kana entries are ever to be allowed.) Historical kana should then be hidden from users by default.
once the step above is in place, convert "abbr" tags to become a class of cross-reference.
revise the "vs" family of PoS tags. "vs" itself will be confined to サ変名詞, "vs-s" will stay for the 愛する variety,and "vs-i" will be used for 為る/する and all expressions ending in する.
Give Dictionary Codes a proper home to link to.
Have a way to identify gairaigo. Lsource tag is great but most gairaigo are from english and they don't have a Lsource tag.
maybe allow an empty lsource for english gairaigo ?
have links open a new tab/window (option) - suggested by Hendrik.
provide a link fore repeating a search at the foot of the display, for the user to cut/save (option) - suggested by Ben.
This page was last edited on 15 January 2012, at 09:24.