Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary

Bruv, the fact that the dev replied a paragraph to a one word 1 star negative review tells me that this project is active lol. And the man cares about the project. Both beginners to expert benefits from this extension. There are lots of features but the design makes it so that you can use the extension immediately and explore the other settings later to avoid being overwhelmed. Good ting :) and u don't have to respond to negative reviews dev. We know the value, ignore the haters lol Edit:... Show more

Useless.

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperSep 21, 2024

What's with that review? You did not even qualify which part is useless, is it the words separator? is it the dictionary? The initials of your real name is ACY, then you quickly change your name to just A A in just a minute. You don't want your non-objective review to be attached to your real name. Qualify your review, we can improve things much that way, we will know which part need to be corrected or fixed, or there might be a functionality that you need and you want it be added to CWS

UPDATE: Thanks very much for the new feature. Now is really easy to enable/disable the dictionary. In the meanwhile I found out how to reproduce the problem in google translate, if you use it to translate from Chinese to English and after entering Chinese text you want to copy the text to the clipboard with Ctrl+C, the Ctrl key will activate the pop-up dictionary and afterwards the textbox for entering Chinese text is no longer editable and the text can't be changed anymore, the only solution... Show more

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperSep 8, 2024

UPDATE: > the Ctrl key will activate the pop-up dictionary and afterwards the textbox for entering Chinese text is no longer editable Internally, CWS's dictionary works on text that are from the page only. If the text is inside the textbox, CWS's dictionary will not work. So to make CWS dictionary able to work even on text inside the textbox, it overlays an invisible page directly on top of the text, the side effect though as you observed is that if you typed a text immediately after the dictionary pops-up, your typed text won't replace the existing highlighted text, as the text that has the focus is the invisible page's text, not the textbox's text. So to edit the text inside the textbox after the dictionary pops-up, you have to make the dictionary disappear first, this can be done by clicking the mouse anywhere on the text first, then you can resume typing/editing over the existing text Anyway, you must do the above when you need to resume typing after the dictionary appears. As when the dictionary pops up, the CWS's dictionary various functionalities' can be activated by keyboard shortcuts. So for example if you type the word 热 (pinyin 're'), the Remember functionality (adding of word to Google Sheet's Learning Tracking Sheet) will be invoked as you trigger the Remember functionality by pressing the Remember functionality's keyboard shortuct 'r'. To prevent accidentally invoking the dictionary functionalities when typing, you have to make the dictionary disappear first by clicking anywhere in the text, then resume typing UPDATE: October 2 *Hoverless video dictionary* is now renamed as *Video settings etc* ------- > Youtube also will stop playing the video when the popup appears The video Auto-pause setting can be set in Hoverless video dictionary > I noticed that it does not work well on google translate site If you need to see the definition of Chinese text in the text box, before you hover the mouse cursor on the Chinese text in the text box, press Ctrl. Or are there any other functionalities of CWS that does not work well on Google Translate? > Some easy way of disabling and enabling it Added the disable shortcut icon 🚫 in the pop-up. This will be available on version 8.24.84.2440, currently in Pending Review, will be available as soon as Google approved it

Thank you so much! This is just what I need. I hope Google doesn't remove it. They are trying to remove the Vietnamese version of this (Han-Viet)

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperJul 30, 2024

You're welcome. CWS won't get removed, it follows best practices

how can i use it on pdfs that i open them on browser? is it also designed for that?

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperJul 1, 2024

Chinese words separator works on HTML only. If you open/drag a PDF file directly to Chrome, its built-in PDF viewer is the one that will render the PDF. CWS, or any browser extensions for that matter, works on HTML only. Fortunately, there is a PDF viewer library that renders PDF as HTML, the library is PDF.js, which is made by Mozilla Mozilla have a demo of PDF.js in this link: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html You can open or drag any PDF file to that link After opening/dragging a PDF file to that link, you can use almost all of CWS dictionary functionalities on the HTML page rendered by PDF.js. However, page-modifying functionalities of CWS like pinyin annotator and colorizer won't work on the HTML page rendered by PDF.js. The text content of HTML rendered by PDF.js have fixed locations in a page, or maybe that's the nature of a PDF format. As such, annotating text with pinyin is not feasible, as CWS pinyin annotator won't be able to shift down the text contents of the PDF, the annotations will just be overlaid directly on the top of the Chinese characters, which is just a mess If you need pinyin annotations and colors on a Chinese text, copy the PDF's text and paste it in CWS's Read offline tool

Great!

Its an amazing extension❗Super useful and convenient to use and learn Chinese Thanks you for making it❗

Quite an amazing tool.

add dark mode on offline reading page. pls Best one for chinese believe me i tried so many different and it is all in one. SUPER customizible ty you are the best!!!!! UPDATE. Hey add second subs on netflix that would be awesome, i use different app for this, but its collapsinng with this ext, if it possible thanks. just a optinal feature. thanks!!

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperMar 3, 2024

Thanks, will add dark/light mode to Offline Reading Page like how CWS's Settings screen follows the dark/light mode of the browser/operating system. Need to consider though if the dark/light mode of Parallel Text of Offline Reading Page should just follow the browser/operating system's dark/light mode or not, as Parallel Text is also used in websites, majority of which, uses light mode only. If not, need to make the dark/light mode of Parallel Text be independently configurable UPDATE(March 10): Still can't find the Netflix API for reading the other languages subtitles. I feel the other extensions developers are relying on some not well-known techniques to do that, and they kept the techniques proprietary for their competitive advantage. For the meantime, you can use the browser's built-in translator to translate the Chinese subtitle to English on-the-fly, you can follow the instruction here: https://github.com/chinese-words-separator/chinese-words-separator.github.io/issues/26 After following the steps from that link, click CWS icon from Chrome's toolbar, then click *Video settings etc*

It's very convenient for learning. As a Japanese person, it's a bit inconvenient that the translation is in only English. It would be even more convenient if there was a way to change the language of the dictionary. Since the popup dictionary when I hover over a word is in English, I would like to change it to Japanese or another language. Is there a way to do that?

IEnableMuch DevDeveloperFeb 15, 2024

Haven't found where to get the definitions for a Chinese to Japanese dictionary. There's a way to transform English definitions to Japanese when using Chinese words separator though. The steps are at the end of this issue: https://github.com/chinese-words-separator/chinese-words-separator.github.io/issues/27. There are accompanying screenshots on that link how to make the browser translate the English definitions to Japanese