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From: jfriedl@TUBBY.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU (Jeffrey Friedl)
Subject: Re: Help with EDICT Entries
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jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
|> My good friend Jeffrey Friedl, who likes nothing better than to
|> subject poor EDICT to the attention of his maurauding perl
|> programs, has pointed out to me that EDICT has a number of entries
|> which employ what are now regarded either as archaic glyphs of
|> of characters, or characters which have now been replaced by 
|> others in common usage.
....
|> Here is the full list:

Sorry, Jim, but I only sent you the list of entries that didn't involve
names only. The full list is over 3,500 lines long. It's just that I'm
sure there are many names that *are* written with archaic kanji. Certainly
there will be some typos in edict and some improperly-written names, but
it would take someone *very* knowledgable about Japanese names to be able
to say "no, that is not a name" and remove an entry.....

*jeffrey*
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