Chinese <-> English libraries and software

CEDict Framework

The CEDict Framework is a Cocoa framework for searching the CEDICT dictionary databases.

The main features of this framework are:

• multithreading support
• Unicode support
• search by pinyin with a numeric or unicode tone representation
• use of Cocoa concepts such as delegates

This initial version still uses the Big5/GB encoded databases, which are then converted to UTF8. Since sometime around January 2005, the CEDICT project also publishes a UTF8 version of their database. Future releases will use this directly.

Future releases will also integrate character search from the Unihan database published by Unicode.org.

iCE

iCE (interactive Chinese-English dictionary) is a simple dictionary look-up program that uses the CEDict Framework. It demonstrates how CEDict's use of multithreading enables the "incremental search" feature found on many of today's Mac OS X applications (e.g., Finder, Preview).

Future releases of iCE will link CEDICT with the Unihan database.

Download Software

Here are download links to the complete source code. The software has been tested on Mac OS 10.3 using XCode 1.5. Source code documentation (html) is generated using Doxygen when you compile the source code.

• CEDict.tar.gz (38265 bytes)
• iCE.tar.gz (58931 bytes)

Source is being distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license.

The above software is being provided free of charge, and I fully intend to keep it this way. However, if you find it useful, please consider making a small donation to help support this work.