Jitterbits Chinese-English Dictionary, version 1.3

Jitterbits Chinese-English Dictionary is the first and only dictionary for Pocket PC devices running OS version 2002 or later that translates from PinYin Chinese to English. PinYin is the phonetic representation of Chinese words using Latin alphabet. Thus, users of the dictionary no longer need to know the ideographic Chinese writing (Hanzi) of the word in order to find its translation. This makes the Jitterbits Chinese-English Dictionary an indispensable tool for travelers and business visitors to China.

Feature Summary:

1. Translation from Chinese to English:
- Chinese word look up from PinYin
- Chinese word look up from ideograph (Hanzi)

2. Translation from English to Chinese:
- shows the ideographic Simplified Chinese writing of the word (Hanzi)
- shows the phonetic pronunciation of the word

System requirements:

1. Pocket PC device running OS version 2002 or later.

2. Microsoft .NET mobile framework, which you can download from here, if you're running PPC 2002. The .NET framework is embedded in all later versions of the PPC OS and there's no need to install it separately.

3. Chinese Font, if you need to display the ideographic Simplified Chinese writing of the word. You can use the dictionary without Chinese font too. However, you will not be able to look up Chinese word from ideograph.

Disclaimer:

Jitterbits Chinese-English Dictionary uses CEDICT, a publicly available dictionary compilation, which can be downloaded here. CEDICT is one of the most complete and up to date Chinese-English translation references. Jitterbits does not sell CEDICT or makes any claims with regards to it. We do provide installation files for the Jitterbits dictionary that include compiled versions of CEDICT for user convenience, but it's perfectly OK to download CEDICT windows-1251 directly from the Web and import it for use with the Jitterbits Dictionary.

Additional Information:

There are many sites on the Net, where you can find more inormation about PinYin and the Chinese Language. Here is one:
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/pinyin/pinyin.html

New and updated features in version 1.3:

• Fixed some errors occurring during import of recent CEDICT file versions
• More error-prone import procedure - problems in import affect only currently imported line, and doesn't stop import procedure altogether
• Clearer error and progress messages
• Improved read-me instructions for software installation, configuration and usage
• Other minor bug-fixes and improvements.

New and updated features in version 1.2:

• Included new dictionary databases
• Included read-me instructions for easier installation
• Some minor bug-fixes and improvements.

New and updated features in version 1.1:

• Fixed error saving some specific registration keys.
• Choosing of specific dictionary directory is allowed. Thus large dictionaries might be moved to a storage card
• Some minor bug-fixes and improvements.
• All current registration keys are valid but have to be re-entered.